{"id":9385,"date":"2011-07-13T15:31:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T19:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=9385"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:20","slug":"therapeutic-hypothermia-network-provides-benefit-to-cardiac-arrest-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/07\/13\/therapeutic-hypothermia-network-provides-benefit-to-cardiac-arrest-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Therapeutic Hypothermia Network Provides Benefit to Cardiac Arrest Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Previous studies have shown that therapeutic hypothermia (TH) improves outcomes in patients who have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). In <a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/content\/124\/2\/206.abstract?sid=f717983c-fca5-49d4-bd81-6a47e1768bc9\">a new paper published in <em>Circulation<\/em><\/a>, Michael Mooney and colleagues report on their experience with 140 OHCA patients in Minnesota who received treatment within a regional network of care that transfers OHCA patients to a TH-capable hospital. Prior to arrival at the specialized TH center, patients are cooled with ice bags.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the patients (56%) survived to hospital discharge. Of these, 92% had a positive neurological outcome. The risk of death increased by 20% for each hour of delay to the start of cooling. Outcomes were similar whether patients were transferred to a TH-capable hospital or were originally treated at a TH-capable hospital. \u201cWhat our data show is if you have a cardiac arrest 200 miles away or on our doorstep, the quality of the outcomes is identical,\u201d said Mooney in an AHA press release.<\/p>\n<p>The authors report that they were able to successfully achieve concurrent TH with PCI for MI patients without a delay in either procedure. They conclude that TH &#8220;can provide an effective rescue therapy for OHCA and should be readily adopted within the context of existing STEMI networks.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous studies have shown that therapeutic hypothermia (TH) improves outcomes in patients who have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). In a new paper published in Circulation, Michael Mooney and colleagues report on their experience with 140 OHCA patients in Minnesota who received treatment within a regional network of care that transfers OHCA patients to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,9],"tags":[317,908,907],"class_list":["post-9385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-interventional-cardiology","tag-cardiac-arrest","tag-hypothermia","tag-sca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}