Selected articles had to meet the following criteria to be included. Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest jama jama. Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest johns. Hypothermia therapy after pediatric cardiac arrest. Mild therapeutic hypothermia 32 degrees c34 degrees c is the only therapy that improved neurological outcome after cardiac arrest in a randomized, controlled trial. A total of 192 patients 103 hypothermic, 89 nonhypothermic were studied. Methods and results a 2year, retrospective, 5center study was conducted, and 222 patients with cardiac arrest were identified. Both primary and secondary hypothermia can be difficult to identify. C has been standard of care for patients remaining comatose after resuscitation from. Cardiac arrest happens when the heart suddenly stops beating. Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest springerlink.
Intraarrest and postarrest prognostic factors 2015 updated. To answer this question, the authors carried out a followup study using information from a national us registry. In coma after cardiac arrest with nonshockable rhythm, therapeutic hypothermia improved 90d neurologic outcome benton r. Animal studies and clinical case reports were excluded from analysis, and no language restrictions were applied. Prior to making any medical decisions, please view our disclaimer. Mild therapeutic hypothermia 32c34c is the only therapy that improved neurological outcome after cardiac arrest in a randomized, controlled trial. Ohcas are often secondary to acute coronary syndrome and early coronary revascularization may improve survival. Post cardiac arrest therapeutic hypothermia in adult patients. During the initial period after ca, when cooling and concomitant sedation is used, the only reliable prognostic information is limited to a minority of patients who figure 1 multimodal approach to assess prognosis in comatose survivors after cardiac arrest treated with hypothermia. Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest t herapeutic hypothermia for comatose adults who have had an outofhospital cardiac arrest was recommended on the basis of results of clinical trials reported in 2002. Mild therapeutic hypothermia to improve the neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest.
Induction of prehospital therapeutic hypothermia after resuscitation from nonventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest. Therapeutic hypothermia protocol for cardiac arrest patient selection patients who present to the emergency department ed or critical care unit ccu after cardiac arrest in or out of hospital who have a return of spontaneous circulation rosc and have the following conditions should be considered for this protocol. Pdf prognosis following outofhospital cardiac arrest is generally poor, which is mostly due to the severity of neuronal damage. Therapeutic hypothermia protocol saves the brain after a cardiac arrest or heart attack. An advisory statement by the advanced life support task force of the international liaison committee on resuscitation jerry p. Mild therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest protocol. Treatment of comatose survivors of outofhospital cardiac arrest with induced hypothermia. Does hypothermia increase survival after inhospital cardiac arrest. Therapeutic hypothermia after inhospital cardiac arrest in. Uphs post cardiac arrest targeted temperature management ttm. History and current use of mild therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac. Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest n engl j med 372. Intra arrest and postarrest prognostic factors 2015 updated. Thapca therapeutic hypothermia after pediatric cardiac arrest.
Background hypothermia therapy improves mortality and functional outcome after cardiac arrest and birth asphyxia in adults and newborns. Translating protective hypothermia during cardiac arrest into. Therapeutic hypothermia also called targeted temperature management refers to deliberate reduction of the core body temperature, typically to a range of about 32 to 34 c 89. In the first, the european hypothermia after cardiac arrest study group enrolled 275 patients, with 7 patients randomly assigned to the hypothermia group and 8 to the normothermia group. Unconscious adult patients with spontaneous circulation after outofhospital cardiac arrest should be cooled to 32c to 34c for 12 to 24 hours.
Mild therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest n engl j med, vol. This hypothermic patient is in cardiac arrest, placing them in stage iv. Our findings apply both to victims of accidental hypothermia and to patients undergoing therapeutic hypothermia during surgery or after e. Accidental hypothermia and cardiac arrest critcases em cases. Is hypothermia harmful after inhospital cardiac arrest. Review how targeted temperature management ttm mitigates injuries after cardiac arrest. Relative to normothermia, more favorable neurologic recovery occurred in 16% to 23% of adults treated with hypothermia at 32c to 34c for 24 hours after outofhospital cardiac arrest n 352, 5 7. There is a separate study for children who arrest in the hospital thapcaih and children who arrest out of the hospital thapcaoh. Temperature management after cardiac arrest aha journals. Clinical application of mild therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest. Is hypothermia after cardiac arrest effective in both. You will need acrobat reader to view protocols in pdf format. In this article, we will discuss brain injuries that result from a. Although patients presenting in hypothermic cardiac arrest require evaluation for traditional causes of cardiac arrest, there are some changes to standard acls care.
Therapeutic hypothermia protocol for cardiac arrest. Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest pdf clinical application and management if you found this book helpful then please like, subscribe and share. Sseps should be performed greater than 48 hours after cardiac arrest, or 48 hours postrewarming if the patient underwent induced hypothermia. Neuronspecific enolase nse, typically sent days after arrest or after rewarming is. Therapeutic hypothermia after outofhospital cardiac arrest. Induced hypothermia after successful resuscitation leads to one additional patient with intact neurological outcome for every 6 patients treated. Mild therapeutic hypothermia to improve the neurologic. Schenone a aaron cohen a gabriel patarroyo b logan harper a xiaofeng wang c mehdi h. The effect of hypothermia therapy in infants and children with cardiac arrest is unknown.
Hypothermia after cardiac arrest mgh stroke service. Apr 11, 2014 latest large trials provide no support for this intervention out of hospital cardiac arrest is common and is associated with a high rate of mortality. Induction of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest in prehospital patients using icecold ringers solution. The editor has assembled a team of prominent experts in the field to provide a practical howto book that presents the reader with the necessary tools to design, apply and. Postcardiac arrest care american heart association. Saving the neurons mary ann bautista, dnp, rn, agcnsbc, agacnpbc disclosure financial support. Neurologists are increasingly confronted with raised expectations of next of kin and the necessity to provide early predictions of longterm prognosis. Hypothermia after cardiac arrest guideline pdf authoring information. Within 6 hours after the return of circulation, comatose children older than 48 hours and younger than 18 years of age were randomly assigned to therapeutic hypothermia target temperature, 33. Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest american nurse.
Patients should continue to receive aggressive post cardiac arrest care, including 48 hours of postrewarming normothermia and avoidance of neuroprognostication for at least 72 hours after rewarming to 37 c. Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrestreply paul s. Once the heart starts beating again, healthcare providers use cooling devices to lower your body temperature for a short time. Inducing hypothermia after out of hospital cardiac arrest. Its sometimes used for people who have a cardiac arrest. Abstract therapeutic hypothermia is neuroprotective after cardiac arrest ca via poorly understood mechanisms. Jul 11, 2011 therapeutic hypothermia also called targeted temperature management refers to deliberate reduction of the core body temperature, typically to a range of about 32 to 34 c 89. Cardiac arrest is possible with a temperature below 32c but the risk of cardiac arrest increases substantially below 28c and proportionally with further. Hypothermia can be classified into 4 stages based on clinical symptoms and core temperature see table below. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation cpr initiated within 15 minutes of collapse. Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest circulation.
Induction of moderate hypothermia 2832 8c be fore cardiac. Decreasing the temperature helps brain injuries after a cardiac arrest. For more than a decade, mild induced hypothermia 32. Hypothermia protocol and saving the brain after a cardiac arrest. Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest provides an evidencebased approach to identifying and managing cardiac arrest patients who are appropriate for th. There are a plethora of reasons for someone to sustain a brain injury. A novel ecgbiomarker for cardiac arrest during hypothermia.
In this article, we will discuss brain injuries that result from a persons cardiac arrest. The first trial, the european multicenter trial, conducted by the hypothermia after cardiac arrest study group, enrolled 275 patients. Uphs post cardiac arrest targeted temperature management. Therapeutic hypothermia after prolonged cardiac arrest. In a trial conducted at 37 childrens hospitals, we compared two temperature interventions in children who had had inhospital cardiac arrest.
Pdf therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest heidrun. Review how to assess prognosis after cardiac arrest and. Apr 10, 2020 our findings apply both to victims of accidental hypothermia and to patients undergoing therapeutic hypothermia during surgery or after e. Neurological prognostication of outcome in patients in coma. Background accidental hypothermia is a severe condition with high mortality rate, ranging between 25 and 40% in most studies 1. Predictors of neurologic outcome in hypothermia after cardiac. Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest pdf clinical. Multiple modalities of testing and examination used together to predict outcome after the effects of hypothermia and medications have been allowed to resolve, are most likely to part 8. Hypothermia and survival after inhospital cardiac arrest.
Pdf therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest researchgate. Ptp is the main endeffector of the reperfusion injury salvage kinase risk signaling pathway. Temperature management after cardiac arrest journal of vascular. Seder and others published shivering during therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. In the normal brain, hypothermia reduces the cerebral metabolic rate for oxygen cmro 2 by 6% for every 1c reduction in brain temperature 28c. The use of moderate hypothermia after cardiac arrest was initially reported in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Anesthesia and analgesia protocol during therapeutic. Abstractfor more than a decade, mild induced hypothermia 32c34c has been standard of care for patients remaining comatose after. Vf cardiac arrest ischemic brain damage commonly occurs in patients post cardiac. Shivering during therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest.
Therapeutic hypothermia american heart association. Pilot randomized clinical trial of prehospital induction of mild hypothermia in outofhospital cardiac arrest patients with a rapid infusion of 4 degrees c normal saline. Spertus, md, mph to the editor in a large retrospective study of therapeutic hypothermia, dr chan and colleagues 1 did not demonstrate a benefit of cooling for patients with inhospital cardiac arrest and suggested that cooling actually may have been harmful in some. The absence of pupillary light responses, corneal reflexes, and an extensor or absent motor response at day 3 after cardiac arrest remained accurate predictors of poor outcome after therapeutic hypothermia p hypothermia protocol for cardiac arrest patient selection patients who present to the emergency department ed or critical care unit ccu after cardiac arrest in or out of hospital who have a return of spontaneous circulation rosc and have the following conditions should be considered for this protocol. Patients should continue to receive aggressive postcardiac arrest care, including 48 hours of postrewarming normothermia and avoidance of neuroprognostication for at least 72 hours after rewarming to 37 c. However, many patients remain comatose owing to hypoxic brain injury, and this is the leading cause of death. It may prevent mitochondrial permeability transition pore ptp opening, an event which plays a pivotal role in ischemiareperfusion injury. Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest johns hopkins. Rosc within 30 minutes of recognition of the cardiac arrest. The study, entitled therapeutic hypothermia after pediatric cardiac arrest thapca, will evaluate whether regulating the body temperature will improve the outcome for children after cardiac arrest. Latest large trials provide no support for this intervention out of hospital cardiac arrest is common and is associated with a high rate of mortality. Only one third of patients admitted to the hospital. Management of coma after cardiac arrest has improved during the past decade, allowing an increasing proportion of patients to survive, thus prognostication has become an integral part of postresuscitation care.
Bilateral absence of n20 is specific for poor prognosis, with or without hypothermia. Such cooling may also be beneficial for other rhythms or inhospital cardiac arrest. Multiple factors should be considered when trying to predict outcomes of cardiac arrest. Post cardiac arrest care induced hypothermia pathway order set call the resuscitation team. In coma after cardiac arrest with nonshockable rhythm. Review the mechanisms of injury after cardiac arrest. After a rush of optimism surrounding small trials showing large benefits from hypothermia to 33 after outofhospital cardiac arrest, hospitals and intensivists flocked to provide hypothermia to all victims of cardiac arrest in or outofhospital. Registered users can save articles, searches, and manage email alerts.