title: Authors' response: CPR and brain death: confounders, clearance, caution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Catholic University School of Medicine, Largo Agostino Gemelli 8, 00168, Rome, Italy. sandroni@rm.unicatt.it.
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-8878-2611
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sandroni
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Catholic University School of Medicine, Largo Agostino Gemelli 8, 00168, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Sonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: D'Arrigo
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Clifton W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Callaway
authors.affiliation: Medical ICU, Cochin Hospital (AP-HP) Paris Descartes University, Paris, France.
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cariou
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Neurology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
authors.forename: Irina
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dragancea
authors.affiliation: Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
authors.forename: Fabio Silvio
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Taccone
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Catholic University School of Medicine, Largo Agostino Gemelli 8, 00168, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Massimo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Antonelli
mesh_terms: D001926:Brain Death; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; D006801:Humans; D058687:Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest