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The article focuses on a study to evaluate the effects of combined vasopressin, steroids, and epinephrine (VSE) in in-hospital cardiac arrest. The study revealed that VSE addition to cardiopulmonary resuscitation has improved survival with favorable neurologic status in patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest requiring vasopressin therapy.

The article presents comments on the study by D.L. Bhatt and colleagues to assess the effectiveness of clopidogrel and aspirin in the prevention of atherothrombosis. According to the author, there was no effect in using dual therapy over aspirin. The author feels that if dual therapy is beneficial for acute coronary syndromes for a short-term then there may be some patients for whom, it will be beneficial for a long-term.

This article investigates whether clinical examination is precise and accurate for predicting poor outcome of patients with postcardiac arrest coma (PCAC). Researchers categorised, good cerebral performance, moderate cerebral disability, severe cerebral disability, coma or vegetative state, and brain death or death as various parameters for investigation. It is therefore important for physicians to have reliable predictors for identifying which patients in PCAC are unlikely to have meaningful survival when counseling family members and when making decisions on the use of scarce medical resources.