New Clinical Study in Japan Shows Statistically Significant Result in-hospital Rapid Induction of Cooling After Witnessed Shockable Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
A new publication in Circulation Journal, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34261843/[1], with statistically significant results on patients whose collapse to return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) interval was delayed over 18 min after shockable out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with in-hospital rapid cooling by intravenous ice-cold fluids. The study was an analysis of collected data from 248 comatose survivors with ROSC who were treated with therapeutic hypothermia (34°C for 12–72 h) after witnessed shockable OHCA in Japan. A scientific presentation from Japan, investigating