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Should All Patients Be Treated With Hypothermia Following Cardiac Arrest?

Steven Deem and William E Hurford
Respiratory Care April 2007, 52 (4) 443-451;
Steven Deem
Departments of Anesthesiology and Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
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William E Hurford
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Cardiac arrest is a common and lethal medical problem; each year more than half a million people in the United States and Canada suffer cardiac arrest treated by emergency medical personnel or in-hospital providers. Of those who survive to hospital admission or suffer in-hospital arrest, 40–60% die prior to discharge. Neurologic injury is the major source of morbidity and mortality after recovery of spontaneous circulation. Therapeutic options to prevent neurologic injury are limited, but recent randomized trials showed that moderate therapeutic hypothermia improves neurologic outcome in selected patients following cardiac arrest. Clear consensus statements recommend that unconscious adult patients with spontaneous circulation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest should be cooled if the initial rhythm was ventricular fibrillation, and that therapeutic hypothermia should be considered for other patients (other rhythms or in-hospital arrest). However, the position that all patients should be cooled following cardiac arrest is probably too broad, given the lack of studies on patients with non-ventricular-fibrillation rhythms, in-hospital arrest, or non-cardiac causes of arrest. Further research is needed to determine the broadest application of moderate therapeutic hypothermia.

  • cardiac arrest
  • neurologic injury
  • therapeutic hypothermia
  • ventricular fibrillation

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  • Correspondence: Steven Deem MD, Anesthesiology Department, Harborview Medical Center, Box 359724, 325 Ninth Avenue, Seattle WA 98104. E-mail: sdeem{at}u.washington.edu.
  • Steven Deem MD and William E Hurford MD presented a version of this paper at the 38th Respiratory Care Journal Conference, “Respiratory Controversies in the Critical Care Setting,” held October 6–8, 2006, in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

  • Copyright © 2007 by Daedalus Enterprises Inc.
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