Objectives: In patients at risk of hypoxic ischemic brain injury following cardiac arrest, we sought to (i) characterize brain oxygenation and determine the prevalence of brain hypoxia, (ii) characterize autoregulation using the pressure reactivity index (PRx) and identify the optimal mean arterial pressure (MAPOPT), and (iii) assess the relationship between MAPOPT and brain tissue oxygenation (PbtO2). Design: Prospective interventional study. Setting: Quaternary intensive care unit. Patients: Adult patients with return to spontaneous circulation (ROSC) greater than 10 minutes and a post-resuscitation Glasgow Coma Score under 9 within 72 hours of cardiac arrest. Interventions: All patients underwent multimodal neuromonitoring which included: (i) PbtO2, (ii) intracranial pressure; (iii) jugular venous continuous oximetry (SjvO2); (iv) regional saturation of oxygen (rSO2) using near-infrared spectroscopy, and (iv) PRx based determination of MAPOPT, lower and upper limit of autoregulation. We additionally collected MAP, end tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO2) and temperature. All data were captured at 300 Hz using ICM+® brain monitoring software. Measurements and Main Results: Ten patients (7 males) were included with a median age 47 (range 20-71) and ROSC 22 minutes (12-36). The median duration of monitoring was 47 hours (15-88) and median duration from cardiac arrest to inclusion was 15 hours (6-44). The mean PbtO2 was 23 mmHg (SD 8) and the mean percentage of time with a PbtO2 below 20 mmHg was 38% (6-100). The mean PRx was 0.23 (0.27) and the percentage of time with a PRx greater than 0.3 was 50% (12-91). The mean MAPOPT, lower and upper of autoregulation were 89 mmHg (11), 82mmHg (8) and 96 mmHg (9), respectively. There was marked betweenpatient variability in the relationship between MAP and indices of brain oxygenation. As the patients' actual MAP approached MAPOPT, PbtO2 increased (p<0.001). This positive relationship did not persist when the actual MAP was above MAPOPT. Conclusions: Episodes of brain hypoxia in HIBI are frequent and perfusion within proximity of MAPOPT is associated with increased PbtO2. PRx can yield MAPOPT, lower and upper limit of autoregulation in patients following cardiac arrest.