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In this chapter, a clinical case explanatory of the various conditions relating to the pathology is presented.
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49-Year-old lady, rescued at home for loss of consciousness, was found by the ambulance team in cardiac arrest (no flow time of 13 min) with pulseless activity (PEA) rhythm, ACLS (advanced cardiac life support) was started, and ROSC (return of spontaneous circulation) was achieved after 17 min since the event—4 min after the arrival of the rescue team. Once in A&E, since neither the ECG nor the ECHO showed signs of myocardial ischemia; a brain CT angio was performed; this showed aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) Fisher 3 grade, aneurysm of the internal carotid artery, sulcal and basal cistern effacement, and signs of cerebral hypoperfusion. The patient was then admitted to ICU, where a neurological evaluation was attempted after stopping sedation: GCS 3 with dilated pupils; simultanously, TCCD showed oscillatory reverse flow consistent with cerebral circulatory arrest (Fig. 32.1).
Since the clinical course (prolonged no-flow time, poor neurology), the brain CT showing brain swelling, and the TCCD proving cerebral circulatory arrest the patient was deemed unsalvageable. After few hours later the medical board for the diagnosis of brain death was summoned, and after the 6-h observation time according to the Italian law, organ donation was performed.
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Bertuetti, R., Saini, M., Savo, D., Simonassi, F., Chandrapatham, K., Senussi, T. (2021). Case 8: Cerebral Circulatory Arrest. In: Robba, C., Citerio, G. (eds) Echography and Doppler of the Brain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48202-2_32
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