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1.- Marzia De Lucia studies preserved brain functions in coma patients after cardiac arrest to predict chances of recovery.

2.- Most coma patients after cardiac arrest have low survival rates. Accurate early prognosis is important for personalized interventions.

3.- Clinical tests in first 3 days suggest poor outcomes for some, but are uncertain for many in the "gray zone".

4.- Most patients are treated with temperature management and sedation in the crucial first 24 hours, limiting reliability of tests.

5.- Current clinical tests are tailored to predict poor outcomes. More is needed to identify patients likely to recover.

6.- Data was collected from coma patients in two main Swiss hospitals. Having data across sites helps generalize findings.

7.- Early studies looked at EEG responses to auditory mismatch negativity paradigms within 24 hours of coma onset.

8.- Decoding analysis showed coma patients could discriminate sounds. Improvement from day 1 to 2 predicted 93% of recoveries.

9.- Test complemented clinical scores and could have benefited 15/90 patients. Sound discrimination was preserved but didn't predict outcome.

10.- Next tested if coma patients are sensitive to more complex sound patterns that normally require consciousness.

11.- Used auditory local-global paradigm that elicits late (>300ms) EEG responses and recruits broad cortical network in healthy people.

12.- 4/11 healthy controls showed global effect. Heterogeneous late EEG decoding of global patterns in 10/24 coma patients.

13.- Suggests global effect doesn't require consciousness and can occur in coma. Provoked debate in the literature.

14.- Follow-up study being done with more patients, HD-EEG, consciousness scales to clarify global effect in coma.

15.- Another approach looked at predicting outcomes from resting state EEG using deep learning in 165 coma patients.

16.- 5-fold cross-validation showed high accuracy predicting 3-month outcomes, especially using EEG from day 1 vs day 2.

17.- Deep learning provides graded probability of survival. Visualizations linked prediction to known EEG patterns.

18.- Deep learning captured EEG info related to behavior in coma beyond current clinical assessments.

19.- Deep learning was particularly accurate for patients in the "gray zone" not clearly classified by current tests.

20.- Higher predicted chance of recovery correlated with stronger EEG amplitudes in alpha/beta bands on day 1.

21.- Results suggest deep learning of acute coma EEG can accurately predict outcomes and complement clinical tests.

22.- Further work needed on factors influencing day 1 vs day 2 accuracy and encouraging clinical adoption of tools.

23.- Hope to generalize to coma with other causes beyond cardiac arrest. Making data/algorithms openly available.

24.- Results appear to generalize across different EEG systems. Simple models generalized better than complex ones.

25.- Plan to share new datasets after publication, in addition to some already public. Invites collaboration.

26.- Prognostic EEG may work best for cardiac arrest coma because the brain is not directly injured initially.

27.- Extending the approaches to other causes of coma like traumatic brain injury which are more heterogeneous.

28.- Mentions related work using EEG to map cardiac risk by another group. Complementary approaches.

29.- Coma prognosis work aims to improve clinical management and research through open data sharing.

30.- Speaker is optimistic about advancing coma prognosis through collaborative research using shared data and new technologies.

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