title: Breakthrough in cardiac arrest: reports from the 4th Paris International Conference.
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.
authors.affiliation: University of Washington, Seattle, USA. pKudenchuk@cardiology.washington.edu.
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Kudenchuk
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Catholic University School of Medicine, Rome, Italy. sandroni@rm.unicatt.it.
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sandroni
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Koeln, Cologne, Germany. hendrik.drinhaus@uk-koeln.de.
authors.forename: Hendrik R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Drinhaus
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Koeln, Cologne, Germany. bernd.boettiger@uk-koeln.de.
authors.forename: Bernd W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Böttiger
authors.affiliation: Medical Intensive Care Unit, AP-HP, Cochin Hospital, Paris, France. alain.cariou@cch.aphp.fr.|Paris Descartes University and Sorbonne Paris Cité-Medical School and INSERM U970 (Team 4), Cardiovascular Research Center, European Georges Pompidou Hospital, Paris, France. alain.cariou@cch.aphp.fr.
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cariou
authors.affiliation: Division of Emergencies and Critical Care, Department of Anaesthesiology, Surgical Intensive Care Unit Ullevål, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway. kjetil.sunde@medisin.uio.no.
authors.forename: Kjetil
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sunde
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Vienna General Hospital, Medical University Vienna, Vienna, Austria. martin.dworschak@meduniwien.ac.at.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dworschak
authors.affiliation: Department of Intensive Care, Laboratoire de Recherche Experimentale, Erasme Hospital, Brussels, Belgium. ftaccone@ulb.ac.be.
authors.forename: Fabio Silvio
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Taccone
authors.affiliation: Medical Intensive Care Unit, AP-HP, Lariboisière University Hospital, Inserm U942, Paris, France. nicolas.deye@lrb.aphp.fr.
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Deye
authors.affiliation: Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Skåne University Hospital, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. hans.a.friberg@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Friberg
authors.affiliation: Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège and Liège 2 Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium. steven.laureys@ulg.ac.be.
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Laureys
authors.affiliation: Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Centre, University of Liège and Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Hospital of Liège, Liège, Belgium. dledoux@chu.ulg.ac.be.
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ledoux
authors.affiliation: Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Faculty of Biology and Medicine, CHUV-University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland. Mauro.Oddo@chuv.ch.
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oddo
authors.affiliation: Intensive Care Unit, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles, Le Chesnay, France. slegriel@ch-versailles.fr.
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Legriel
authors.affiliation: Department of Intensive Care, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. philippe.hantson@uclouvain.be.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hantson
authors.affiliation: Medical Intensive Care Unit, AP-HP, European Georges Pompidou Hospital, Paris Descartes University and Sorbonne Paris Cité-Medical School, Paris, France. jldiehl@invivo.edu.
authors.forename: Jean-Luc
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Diehl
authors.affiliation: Department of Intensive Care, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain Brussels, Brussels, Belgium. pierre-francois.laterre@uclouvain.be.
authors.forename: Pierre-Francois
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Laterre
keywords: Cardiac arrest; Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation; Minimally conscious state; Organ donation; Persistent vegetative state; Targeted temperature management; Therapeutic hypothermia