Breakthrough in cardiac arrest: reports from the 4th Paris International Conference

Peter J Kudenchuk; Claudio Sandroni; Hendrik R Drinhaus; Bernd W Böttiger; Alain Cariou; Kjetil Sunde; Martin Dworschak; Fabio Silvio Taccone; Nicolas Deye; Hans Friberg; Steven Laureys; Didier Ledoux; Mauro Oddo; Stéphane Legriel; Philippe Hantson; Jean-Luc Diehl; Pierre-Francois Laterre

doi:10.1186/s13613-015-0064-x

Breakthrough in cardiac arrest: reports from the 4th Paris International Conference

Ann Intensive Care. 2015 Dec;5(1):22. doi: 10.1186/s13613-015-0064-x. Epub 2015 Sep 17.

Authors

Peter J Kudenchuk¹, Claudio Sandroni², Hendrik R Drinhaus³, Bernd W Böttiger⁴, Alain Cariou^{5

6}, Kjetil Sunde⁷, Martin Dworschak⁸, Fabio Silvio Taccone⁹, Nicolas Deye¹⁰, Hans Friberg¹¹, Steven Laureys¹², Didier Ledoux¹³, Mauro Oddo¹⁴, Stéphane Legriel¹⁵, Philippe Hantson¹⁶, Jean-Luc Diehl¹⁷, Pierre-Francois Laterre¹⁸

Affiliations

¹ University of Washington, Seattle, USA. [email protected].
² Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Catholic University School of Medicine, Rome, Italy. [email protected].
³ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Koeln, Cologne, Germany. [email protected].
⁴ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Koeln, Cologne, Germany. [email protected].
⁵ Medical Intensive Care Unit, AP-HP, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France. [email protected].
⁶ Paris Descartes University and Sorbonne Paris Cité-Medical School and INSERM U970 (Team 4), Cardiovascular Research Center, European Georges Pompidou Hospital, Paris, France. [email protected].
⁷ Division of Emergencies and Critical Care, Department of Anaesthesiology, Surgical Intensive Care Unit Ullevål, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. [email protected].
⁸ Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Vienna General Hospital, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria. [email protected].
⁹ Department of Intensive Care, Laboratoire de Recherche Experimentale, Erasme Hospital, Brussels, Belgium. [email protected].
¹⁰ Medical Intensive Care Unit, AP-HP, Lariboisière University Hospital, Inserm U942, Paris, France. [email protected].
¹¹ Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. [email protected].
¹² Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège and Liège 2 Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium. [email protected].
¹³ Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège and Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium. [email protected].
¹⁴ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, CHUV-University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland. [email protected].
¹⁵ Intensive Care Unit, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles, Le Chesnay, France. [email protected].
¹⁶ Department of Intensive Care, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. [email protected].
¹⁷ Medical Intensive Care Unit, AP-HP, European Georges Pompidou Hospital, Paris Descartes University and Sorbonne Paris Cité-Medical School, Paris, France. [email protected].
¹⁸ Department of Intensive Care, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain Brussels, Brussels, Belgium. [email protected].

Abstract

Jean-Luc Diehl The French Intensive Care Society organized on 5th and 6th June 2014 its 4th "Paris International Conference in Intensive Care", whose principle is to bring together the best international experts on a hot topic in critical care medicine. The 2014 theme was "Breakthrough in cardiac arrest", with many high-quality updates on epidemiology, public health data, pre-hospital and in-ICU cares. The present review includes short summaries of the major presentations, classified into six main chapters: Epidemiology of CA Pre-hospital management Post-resuscitation management: targeted temperature management Post-resuscitation management: optimizing organ perfusion and metabolic parameters Neurological assessment of brain damages Public healthcare.

Keywords: Cardiac arrest; Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation; Minimally conscious state; Organ donation; Persistent vegetative state; Targeted temperature management; Therapeutic hypothermia.