Coma (optics)

Physics

Targeted temperature management

Sedation

Resuscitation

Ventricular fibrillation

Optics

Cardiology

Intensive care medicine

Emergency medicine

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Ventricular tachycardia

Return of spontaneous circulation

Intensive care

Anesthesia

Medicine

The Lancet

The prognosis after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has improved in the past few decades because of advances in interventions used outside and in hospital. About half of patients who have OHCA with initial ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation and who are admitted to hospital in coma after return of spontaneous circulation will survive to discharge with a reasonable neurological status. In this Series paper we discuss in-hospital management of patients with post-cardiac-arrest syndrome.

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: in-hospital intervention strategies