Reply to Wallner B et al. Prognostication of outcome for hypothermic avalanche victims in cardiac arrest

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, St. John of God Hospital, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
² Department of Anaesthesiology, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany. Electronic address: lott@uni-mainz.de.
³ Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy; Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
⁴ Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), Lausanne University, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Comment

P Paal et al. Resuscitation. 2022 Feb.

. 2022 Feb:171:123-125.

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.12.034.

¹ Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, St. John of God Hospital, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria.
² Department of Anaesthesiology, University Medical Center, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany. Electronic address: lott@uni-mainz.de.
³ Institute of Mountain Emergency Medicine, Eurac Research, Bolzano, Italy; Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
⁴ Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), Lausanne University, Lausanne, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Competing Interest CL, HB and MFreport no COI. MP, VR and PP have been involved with derivation and validation of the HOPE score.

European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021: Cardiac arrest in special circumstances.
Lott C, Truhlář A, Alfonzo A, Barelli A, González-Salvado V, Hinkelbein J, Nolan JP, Paal P, Perkins GD, Thies KC, Yeung J, Zideman DA, Soar J; ERC Special Circumstances Writing Group Collaborators. Lott C, et al. Resuscitation. 2021 Apr;161:152-219. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.02.011. Epub 2021 Mar 24. Resuscitation. 2021. PMID: 33773826
Prognostication of cardiac arrest in avalanche victims.
Wallner B, Putzer G, Mair P. Wallner B, et al. Resuscitation. 2022 Feb;171:121-122. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2021.12.008. Resuscitation. 2022. PMID: 35131033 No abstract available.