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Volume 346:612-613 February 21, 2002 Number 8
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Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest

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In this issue of the Journal, the reported results of two randomized clinical trials, one in Australia1 and the other in Europe,2 showed a neurologic benefit of mild therapeutic hypothermia (33°C in the first study and 32°C to 34°C in the second) in survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.3 In the Australian study, which involved a total of 77 patients who remained comatose after the restoration of spontaneous circulation, 49 percent of those treated with hypothermia were discharged home or to a rehabilitation facility, as compared with 26 percent of those not treated with hypothermia (P=0.046).1 There were no significant differences . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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