• Alexander Nürnberger, Harald Herkner, Fritz Sterz, Jan-Aage Olsen, Michael Lozano, Pierre M van Grunsven, E Brooke Lerner, David Persse, Reinhard Malzer, Marc A Brouwer, Mark Westfall, Chris M Souders, David T Travis, Ulrich R Herken, and Lars Wik.
• Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Wien, Austria.
• Eur. J. Clin. Invest. 2017 Jun 1; 47 (6): 439-446.

BackgroundMild therapeutic hypothermia is argued being beneficial for outcome after cardiac arrest.Materials And MethodsRetrospective analysis of Circulation Improving Resuscitation Care (CIRC) trial data to assess if therapeutic cooling to 33 ± 1 °C core temperature had an association with survival. Of 4231 adult, out-of-hospital cardiac arrests of presumed cardiac origin initially enrolled, eligibility criteria for therapeutic hypothermia were met by 1812. Logistic regression was undertaken in a stepwise fashion to account for the impact on outcome of each significant difference and for the variable of interest between the groups.ResultsOut-of- and in-hospital cooled were 263 (15%), only after admission cooled were 230 (13%) and not cooled were 357 (20%) patients. The group cooled out of- and in hospital had 98 (37%) survivors as compared to the groups cooled in hospital only [80 (35%)] and of those not cooled [68 (19%)]. After adjusting for known covariates (sex, age, witnessed cardiac arrest, no- and low-flow time, shockable initial rhythm, random allocation, bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation and percutaneous coronary intervention), the odds ratio for survival comparing no cooling to out-of- plus in-hospital cooling was 0·53 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0·46-0·61, P < 0·001], and comparing to in-hospital cooling only was 0·67 (95% CI: 0·50-0·89, P = 0·006).ConclusionMild therapeutic hypothermia initiated out of hospital and/or in hospital was associated with improved survival within this secondary analysis of the CIRC cohort compared to no therapeutic hypothermia.© 2017 The Authors. European Journal of Clinical Investigation published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Stichting European Society for Clinical Investigation Journal Foundation.

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