A Prospective Analysis of the Effect of Therapeutic Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest

Completed

Conditions studied: Cardiac Arrest

In brief

Therapeutic hypothermia has been shown to improve survival and neurologic outcome in patients resuscitated after ventricular fibrillation arrest. Few studies have examined whether therapeutic hypothermia is effective outside the research setting, or with other presenting rhythms. Our institution, a large community teaching hospital, instituted a therapeutic hypothermia protocol in November 2006 for all resuscitated cardiac arrest patients. The investigators seek to determine the mortality rate of our protocol and compare our complication rates with those of previously published studies.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00676598

Run by

Advocate Hospital System

People needed

70

Starts

2007-01-01

Expected to finish

2010-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-01-06

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Any adult non-pregnant patient who is unresponsive after resuscitation from cardiac arrest regardless of presenting rhythm and who survives to hospital admission.

You may not qualify if…

• hypotension (SBP <90), initial temperature < 30 °C, trauma, primary intracranial event, or active coagulopathy.

Where it is running

• Adcovate Christ Hospital — Oak Lawn, Illinois, United States

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