Temporal Trends in the Use of Therapeutic Hypothermia for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite evidence that therapeutic hypothermia improves patient outcomes for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, use of this therapy remains low.

Objective

To determine whether the use of therapeutic hypothermia and patient outcomes have changed after publication of the Targeted Temperature Management trial on December 5, 2013, which supported more lenient temperature management for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Design, setting, and participants

A retrospective cohort was conducted between January 1, 2013, and December 31, 2016, of 45 935 US patients in the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival who experienced out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and survived to hospital admission.

Exposures

Calendar time by quarter year.

Main outcomes and measures</

SUBMITTER: Bradley SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324404 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature