Team finds way to classify post-cardiac arrest patients to better predict outcomes
Monday, July 11, 2011 - 16:30
in Health & Medicine
A new method for scoring the severity of illness for patients after cardiac arrest may help to predict their outcomes, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Most importantly, their findings, published in the early online version of Resuscitation, also show that none of the severity categories rules out the potential for a patient's recovery.