Temperature Management for Comatose Adult Survivors of Cardiac Arrest
Published: August 16, 2023
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- Neurologic injury remains the most common cause of death in patients who achieve return of spontaneous circulation after cardiac arrest.
- Temperature management, historically at mildly hypothermic temperatures, has been used widely since 2002 as the main treatment thought to improve neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest
- A large trial (Dankiewicz 2021) including patients with OHCA of presumed cardiac etiology, published in 202, raised questions about whether temperature management at sub-normal temperatures truly improves outcomes.