Hypothermia versus Normothermia after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Josef Dankiewicz, Tobias Cronberg, Gisela Lilja et el published a trial of normothermia vs hypothermia in out of hospital cardiac arrest in NEJM. BACKGROUND Targeted temperature management (TTM, therapeutic hypothermia) after cardiac arrest first came to use in clinical setting since the publication of two landmark articles in 2002(1,2). Earlier it was noted that persons … Read more

ECMO in refractory out of hospital VFib cardiac arrest

Yannopoulos D, Bartos J, Raveendran G, Walser E, et al published a trial in the Lancet   about therapy in patients with out of hospital  refractory ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest.  WHAT Phase 2, single-center, open-label, pragmatic, randomized clinical trial.   WHERE University of Minnesota Medical Center (MN, USA) PATIENTS Adult patients (aged 18-75) with out of hospital … Read more