Does a Higher MAP in the Post-Arrest Patient Make a Difference?

Critical Care Perspectives in Emergency Medicine

The care of patients with return of spontaneous circulation following cardiac arrest centers on optimizing oxygenation and ventilation, optimizing hemodynamics, identifying patients that require immediate coronary angiography, detecting seizures, and targeted temperature management.  In recent years, numerous articles have evaluated various components of this post-arrest bundle of care.  In the current podcast, we discuss Part I of the BOX Trial that evaluated mean arterial blood pressures in the post-arrest patient.