Targeted Temperature Management After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Due To Drowning: Outcomes and Complications.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe outcomes and complications in the drowning subgroup from the Therapeutic Hypothermia After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Out-of-Hospital trial.

Design

Exploratory post hoc cohort analysis.

Setting

Twenty-four PICUs.

Patients

Pediatric drowning cases.

Interventions

Therapeutic hypothermia versus therapeutic normothermia.

Measurements and main results

An exploratory study of pediatric drowning from the Therapeutic Hypothermia After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest Out-of-Hospital trial was conducted. Comatose patients aged more than 2 days and less than 18 years were randomized up to 6 hours following return-of-circulation to hypothermia (n = 46) or normothermia (n = 28). Outcomes assessed included 12-month survival with a Vineland Adaptive

SUBMITTER: Moler FW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5123789 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature