Safety, Feasibility, and Outcomes of Induced Hypothermia Therapy Following In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest-Evaluation of a Large Prospective Registry.

Summary, in English

Despite a lack of randomized trials, practice guidelines recommend that mild induced hypothermia be considered for comatose survivors of in-hospital cardiac arrest. This study describes the safety, feasibility, and outcomes of mild induced hypothermia treatment following in-hospital cardiac arrest.

• Author: Josef Dankiewicz; Simon Schmidbauer; Niklas Nielsen; Karl B Kern; Michael R Mooney; Pascal Stammet; Richard R Riker; Sten Rubertsson; David Seder; Ondrej Smid; Kjetil Sunde; Eldar Søreide; Barbara T Unger; Hans Friberg
• Department/s: Anesthesiology and Intensive Care; Center for cardiac arrest
• Publishing year: 2014
• Language: English
• Pages: 2537-2545
• Publication/Series: Critical Care Medicine
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 12
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25083981?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CCM.0000000000000543
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Topic: Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
• Status: Published
• Research group: Center for cardiac arrest
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1530-0293