title: European Resuscitation Council and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine 2015 guidelines for post-resuscitation care.
abstract: The European Resuscitation Council and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine have collaborated to produce these post-resuscitation care guidelines, which are based on the 2015 International Consensus on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Science with Treatment Recommendations. Recent changes in post-resuscitation care include: (a) greater emphasis on the need for urgent coronary catheterisation and percutaneous coronary intervention following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of likely cardiac cause; (b) targeted temperature management remains important but there is now an option to target a temperature of 36 °C instead of the previously recommended 32-34 °C; (c) prognostication is now undertaken using a multimodal strategy and there is emphasis on allowing sufficient time for neurological recovery and to enable sedatives to be cleared; (d) increased emphasis on rehabilitation after survival from a cardiac arrest.
authors.forename: Jerry P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Nolan
authors.forename: Jasmeet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Soar
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cariou
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cronberg
authors.forename: Véronique R  M
authors.initials: VR
authors.lastname: Moulaert
authors.forename: Charles D
authors.initials: CD
authors.lastname: Deakin
authors.forename: Bernd W
authors.initials: BW
authors.lastname: Bottiger
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Friberg
authors.forename: Kjetil
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sunde
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sandroni
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000628:therapy*; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D007036:Hypothermia, Induced; D015425:Myocardial Reperfusion; D011379:Prognosis; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*