Epistemology

Physical medicine and rehabilitation

Psychiatry

Philosophy

Coma (optics)

Physics

Rehabilitation

Optics

Intensive care medicine

Sedative

Physical therapy

Balance (ability)

Pessimism

Neuroimaging

Medicine

The Lancet Neurology

More patients are surviving cardiac arrest than ever before; however, the burden now lies with estimating neurological prognoses in a large number of patients who were initially comatose, in whom the ultimate outcome is unclear. Neurologists, neurointensivists, and clinical neurophysiologists must accurately balance the concern that overly conservative prognostication could leave patients in a severely disabled state, with the possibility that inaccurately pessimistic prognostication could lead to the withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in patients who might otherwise have a good functional outcome.

Brain injury after cardiac arrest: from prognostication of comatose patients to rehabilitation