Epileptiform Electrographic Patterns After Cardiac Arrest: Give Up or Treat?

Andrea O Rossetti; Sarah Benghanem

doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.3831

Epileptiform Electrographic Patterns After Cardiac Arrest: Give Up or Treat?

JAMA Neurol. 2024 Nov 11. doi: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.3831. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Andrea O Rossetti¹, Sarah Benghanem^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
² Medical Intensive Care Unit, APHP Paris Centre, Cochin Hospital, University Paris Cité Medical School, Paris, France.
³ INSERM 1266, Institute of Psychiatry and Neurosciences of Paris, Paris, France.

PMID: 39527053
DOI: 10.1001/jamaneurol.2024.3831

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Plain language summary

This Viewpoint challenges conventional clinical practice that eschews pharmacological intervention for comatose patients with epileptiform abnormalities after cardiac arrest using evidence from the Treatment of Electroencephalographic Status Epilepticus after Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (TELSTAR) trial.