Awakening and Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment in Cardiac Arrest Survivors Treated With Therapeutic Hypothermia

摘要

ObjectivesTo characterize the prevalence of withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, as well as the time to awakening, short-term neurologic outcomes, and cause of death in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital resuscitated cardiopulmonary arrests treated with therapeutic hypothermia.