Background: Treatment after cardiac arrest has become more complex and interdisciplinary over the last few years. Thus, the clinically active intensive and emergency care physician not only has to carry out the immediate care and acute diagnostics, but also has to prognosticate the neurological outcome.
Aim: The different, most important steps are presented by leading experts in the area, taking into account the interdisciplinarity and the currently valid guidelines.
Materials and methods: Attention was paid to a concise, practice-oriented presentation.
Results and discussion: The practical guide contains all important steps from the acute care to the neurological prognosis generation that are relevant for the clinically active intensive care physician.
Keywords: Acute diagnosis; Interdisciplinary therapy; Neurological prognosis; Postresuscitation treatment; Targeted temperature management.