European Resuscitation Council and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Guidelines for Post-resuscitation Care 2015: Section 5 of the European Resuscitation Council Guidelines for Resuscitation 2015

The most important changes in post-resuscitation care since 2010 include: There is a greater emphasis on the need for urgent coronarycatheterisation and percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) fol-lowing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of likely cardiac cause.•Targeted temperature management remains important but thereis now an option to target a temperature of 36◦C instead of thepreviously recommended 32–34◦C. This article is being published simultaneously in Resuscitation and IntensiveCare Medicine.∗•Prognostication is now undertaken using a multimodal strategyand there is emphasis on allowing sufficient time for neurologicalrecovery and to enable sedatives to be cleared.•A novel section has been added which addresses rehabilitationafter survival from a cardiac arrest. Recommendations include thesystematic organisation of follow-up care, which should includescreening for potential cognitive and emotional impairments andprovision of information.