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Critical Care Management of Patients After Cardiac Arrest: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association and Neurocritical Care Society

Circulation

The critical care management of patients after cardiac arrest is burdened by a lack of high-quality clinical studies and the resultant lack of high-certainty evidence. This results in limited practice guideline recommendations, which may lead to uncertainty and variability in management. Circulation, Ahead of Print.

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Patient is informed of her husband's death: is it OMI or it stress cardiomyopathy?

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Was her outcome to be expected for ostial RCA OMI? Multidisciplinary critical care management of electrical storm. The patient certainly had OMI and received treatment for it. There is no specific treatment for stress cardiomyopathy, only supportive treatment. We will never know for certain. link] Jentzer, J. Kashou, A.