Monitoring outcomes after cardiac arrest: All resuscitated patients matter

We read with interest the recent paper by Dr. Abazi and colleagues,1 which did not detect a difference in 6 month survival for patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) before vs. after adoption of a target temperature of 36 °C versus 33 °C among 2899 patients in 69 ICUs in Scandinavia. The authors themselves note that the results of the Targeted Temperature Management (TTM) randomized trial2 may have been misinterpreted by some as signifying that fever control alone can supplant therapeutic hypothermia.
Source: Resuscitation - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research