Post-arrest Therapeutic Hypothermia in Pediatric Patients with Congenital Heart Disease

While therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is an effective neuroprotective therapy for neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, TH has not been demonstrated to improve outcome in other pediatric populations. Patients with acquired or congenital heart disease (CHD) are at high risk of both cardiac arrest and neurodevelopmental impairments, and therapies are needed to improve neurologic outcome. The primary goal of our study was to compare safety/efficacy outcomes in post-arrest CHD patients treated with TH versus controls not treated with TH.

Source: Resuscitation - February 21, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Henry H. Cheng, Satish K. Rajagopal, Arnold J. Sansevere, Erica McDavitt, Daniel Wigmore, Jessica Mecklosky, Kristofer Andren, Kathryn Williams, Amy Danehy, Janet S. Soul Source Type: research