Cardiac arrest resuscitation: neurologic prognostication and brain death.

Purpose Of Review: Persistent coma after cardiac arrest is a source of great emotional and financial cost to grieving family members in particular and the healthcare system in general. Neurologic prognostication helps guide appropriate discussions between family members and healthcare providers. Recent advances in therapeutic care increase the challenges, both medical and financial, on local practitioners.

Asthma, allergy, and airway hyperresponsiveness are not linked to the beta(2)-adrenoceptor gene.

Study Objectives: To exclude genetic linkage between the beta(2)-adrenoceptor gene and asthma, allergy, and methacholine airway hyperresponsiveness.

Design: The current study used six distinct intragene markers within the beta(2)-adrenoceptor gene, and evaluated genetic linkage between the beta(2)-adrenoceptor and asthma, allergy, or methacholine airway hyperresponsiveness in eight multiplex families.

Patients: Forty-nine members of eight multiplex families with a high incidence of asthma.