Therapeutic Hypothermia after In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Children

2017276 citationsJournal Articlebronze Open Access

Authors

Frank W. Moler · Wayne State University

Faye S. Silverstein · Wayne State University

Richard Holubkov · University of Utah

Beth S. Slomine · Kennedy Krieger Institute

James R. Christensen · Kennedy Krieger Institute

Vinay Nadkarni · Wayne State University

Kathleen L. Meert ·

Abstract

Among comatose children who survived in-hospital cardiac arrest, therapeutic hypothermia, as compared with therapeutic normothermia, did not confer a significant benefit in survival with a favorable functional outcome at 1 year. (Funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; THAPCA-IH ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00880087 .).

Topics & Keywords

Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Thermal Regulation in Medicine Neonatal and fetal brain pathology

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 376, Issue 4, pp. 318-329

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa1610493

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