Perspectives on brain resuscitation.

Advances in critical care practice have created entire groups of patients that have never before survived. Regardless of the subspecialty of critical care in which you practice, the concept and knowledge of the principles of brain resuscitation must be a core component of critical care practice. The concept of brain resuscitation extends beyond subspecialty boundaries and the boundaries of cardiopulmonary arrest, to include all states of no flow or low flow, which threaten the integrity of neurons.