Prehospital Therapeutic Hypothermia in Patients With Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

• Autores: Antonio Maria Dell.Anna, Fabio Silvio Taccone
• Localización: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, Vol. 311, Nº. 21, 2014, págs. 2233-2233
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Dr Kim and colleagues1 investigated the benefits of prehospital therapeutic hypothermia in patients successfully resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest when compared with standard in-hospital cooling. Although this study confirmed2 that prehospital cooling is effective in reducing patients’ temperature and in achieving the target of 34°C earlier, Kim et al1 found no differences either in survival rates or in intact neurological outcomes between the 2 strategies. Some important issues should be further discussed to better interpret the results.