Future cardiology
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The 47th annual meeting of the Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology was held on 22-25th May 2013 in London, UK. This is one of the largest scientific meetings in Europe within the field of congenital cardiac disease and was held in association with the Japanese Society of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, and Asia Pacific Pediatric Cardiology Society. There were 900 submitted abstracts and over 1000 delegates from 57 countries attended. We have summarized some of the highlights of the meeting below.
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Pittl U, Schratter A, Desch S et al. Invasive versus non-invasive cooling after in- and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a randomized trial. Clin. ⋯ The neurological outcome and neuron-specific enolase level were not different in the two groups at 72 h after cardiac arrest. The efficacy of the two cooling methods were similar. This study underlines the fact that the type of cooling method is not the most important thing to consider in therapeutic hypothermia, but the need of a progressive and soft rewarming may make the difference in the future between different devices.