Brain Injury and Cardiac Arrest, An Issue of Neurologic Clinics

Recent medical advances in the management of hypoxic-ischemia brain injury, such as therapeutic hypothermia after resuscitation from cardiac arrest, have made the role of the neurologist during the immediate and long-term care of survivors increasingly important. Topics discussed in this issue include: mechanisms of brain injury after global cerebral ischemia; pre-hospitalization and emergent care; brain injury and post-resuscitative intensive care; clinical neurophysiologic monitoring and brain injury; neuroimaging and serological markers and neurologic injury; approaches to acute and long-term clinical problems such as seizures, movement disorders, cognitive dysfunction, and behavioral disorders; neuroprotective strategies; and the withdrawal of care and medical futility.