The Revised Cerebral Recovery Index Improves Predictions of Neurological Outcome after Cardiac Arrest

About half of all comatose patients after cardiac arrest (CA) never regain consciousness because of severe postanoxic encephalopathy (PAE) (Sivaraju et al., 2015). Early prognosis may guide treatment decisions. Monitoring of cerebral functioning in the first 24 hours after CA with electroencephalography (EEG) has been demonstrated to enable reliable prediction of either good or poor neurological outcome in about 50% of the patients (Hofmeijer et al., 2015, 2014; Maher et al., 2015; Oddo and Rossetti, 2011; Rossetti et al., 2012, 2010; Tjepkema-Cloostermans et al., 2015).

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