Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Dec 2014
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyImpact of intra-arrest therapeutic hypothermia in outcomes of prehospital cardiac arrest: a randomized controlled trial.
Mild therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is recommended as soon as possible after the return of spontaneous circulation to improve outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Preclinical data suggest that the benefit of TH could be increased if treatment is started during cardiac arrest. We aimed to study the impact of intra-arrest therapeutic hypothermia (IATH) on neurological injury and inflammation following OHCA. ⋯ IATH did not affect biological markers of inflammation or brain damage or clinical outcome.