How long should comatose patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest be cooled?

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doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.09.98.

How long should comatose patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest be cooled?

Hans Kirkegaard¹, Fabio Silvio Taccone², Markus B Skrifvars³, Eldar Søreide⁴

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¹ Research Center for Emergency Medicine, Emergency Department & Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital and Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
² Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
³ Department of Emergency Care and Services and Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Finland.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

PMID: 30505521
PMCID: PMC6236150
DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2018.09.98

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How long should comatose patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest be cooled?

Hans Kirkegaard et al. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Oct.

. 2018 Oct;10(10):E761-E763.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.09.98.

Authors

Hans Kirkegaard¹, Fabio Silvio Taccone², Markus B Skrifvars³, Eldar Søreide⁴

Affiliations

¹ Research Center for Emergency Medicine, Emergency Department & Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital and Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
² Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
³ Department of Emergency Care and Services and Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Finland.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway and Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

PMID: 30505521
PMCID: PMC6236150
DOI: 10.21037/jtd.2018.09.98

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Conflicts of Interest: Dr. FS Taccone receives lecture fees from Bard. Dr MB Skrifvars has received research funding from GE Healthcare and lecture fees from Covidien, Orion Pharma, Bard, and Axis Shield Diagnostics. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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Cooling after cardiac arrest-the longer the better?
Polderman KH. Polderman KH. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Sep;10(Suppl 26):S3300-S3304. doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.07.96. J Thorac Dis. 2018. PMID: 30370143 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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1. Suh GJ, Kwon WY, Kim KS, et al. Prolonged therapeutic hypothermia is more effective in attenuating brain apoptosis in a swine cardiac arrest model. Crit Care Med 2014;42:e132-42. 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182a668e4 - DOI - PubMed
1. Che D, Li L, Kopil CM, et al. Impact of therapeutic hypothermia onset and duration on survival, neurologic function, and neurodegeneration after cardiac arrest. Crit Care Med 2011;39:1423-30. 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318212020a - DOI - PMC - PubMed
1. Kirkegaard H, Søreide E, de Haas I, et al. Targeted temperature management for 48 vs 24 hours and neurologic outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. A randomized clinical trial. JAMA 2017;318:341-50. 10.1001/jama.2017.8978 - DOI - PMC - PubMed
1. Bisschops LL, van der Hoeven JG, Mollnes TE, et al. Seventy-two hours of mild hypothermia after cardiac arrest is associated with a lowered inflammatory response during rewarming in a prospective observational study. Crit Care 2014;18:546. 10.1186/s13054-014-0546-5 - DOI - PMC - PubMed
1. Kagawa E, Dote K, Kato M, et al. Do lower target temperatures or prolonged cooling provide improved outcomes for comatose survivors of cardiac arrest treated with hypothermia? J Am Heart Assoc 2015;4:e002123. 10.1161/JAHA.115.002123 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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[1] Suh GJ, Kwon WY, Kim KS, et al. Prolonged therapeutic hypothermia is more effective in attenuating brain apoptosis in a swine cardiac arrest model. Crit Care Med 2014;42:e132-42. 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182a668e4 - DOI - PubMed

[2] Suh GJ, Kwon WY, Kim KS, et al. Prolonged therapeutic hypothermia is more effective in attenuating brain apoptosis in a swine cardiac arrest model. Crit Care Med 2014;42:e132-42. 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182a668e4 - DOI - PubMed

[3] Che D, Li L, Kopil CM, et al. Impact of therapeutic hypothermia onset and duration on survival, neurologic function, and neurodegeneration after cardiac arrest. Crit Care Med 2011;39:1423-30. 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318212020a - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[4] Che D, Li L, Kopil CM, et al. Impact of therapeutic hypothermia onset and duration on survival, neurologic function, and neurodegeneration after cardiac arrest. Crit Care Med 2011;39:1423-30. 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318212020a - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[5] Kirkegaard H, Søreide E, de Haas I, et al. Targeted temperature management for 48 vs 24 hours and neurologic outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. A randomized clinical trial. JAMA 2017;318:341-50. 10.1001/jama.2017.8978 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[6] Kirkegaard H, Søreide E, de Haas I, et al. Targeted temperature management for 48 vs 24 hours and neurologic outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. A randomized clinical trial. JAMA 2017;318:341-50. 10.1001/jama.2017.8978 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[7] Bisschops LL, van der Hoeven JG, Mollnes TE, et al. Seventy-two hours of mild hypothermia after cardiac arrest is associated with a lowered inflammatory response during rewarming in a prospective observational study. Crit Care 2014;18:546. 10.1186/s13054-014-0546-5 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[8] Bisschops LL, van der Hoeven JG, Mollnes TE, et al. Seventy-two hours of mild hypothermia after cardiac arrest is associated with a lowered inflammatory response during rewarming in a prospective observational study. Crit Care 2014;18:546. 10.1186/s13054-014-0546-5 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[9] Kagawa E, Dote K, Kato M, et al. Do lower target temperatures or prolonged cooling provide improved outcomes for comatose survivors of cardiac arrest treated with hypothermia? J Am Heart Assoc 2015;4:e002123. 10.1161/JAHA.115.002123 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

[10] Kagawa E, Dote K, Kato M, et al. Do lower target temperatures or prolonged cooling provide improved outcomes for comatose survivors of cardiac arrest treated with hypothermia? J Am Heart Assoc 2015;4:e002123. 10.1161/JAHA.115.002123 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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