Isenschmid C, et al. - Via prospectively analyzing consecutive, adult cardiac arrest patients upon intensive care unit (ICU) admission, researchers determined the incremental usefulness of routine blood markers from different biological pathways for predicting fatal outcome and neurological deficits in cardiac arrest patients. They noted significant enhancement in prognostication of cardiac arrest patients by performing an assessment of routine markers of inflammation/infection and shock, while there appeared no further improvement in statistical models with cardiac markers. Hence improved initial management decisions in this vulnerable patient population could be made via combining blood markers and clinical parameters.