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This review synthesizes contemporary evidence from the 2025 European Resuscitation Council and European Society of Intensive Care Medicine guidelines, the 2024\u20132025 International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation recommendations, and recent randomized controlled trials to provide clinicians with a practical framework emphasizing cerebral protection, multimodal monitoring, and reliable prognostication while minimizing premature withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy. 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