Hypothermia Therapy After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest

摘要: Background— Hypothermia therapy improves mortality and functional outcome after cardiac arrest birth asphyxia in adults newborns. The effect of hypothermia infants children with is unknown. Methods Results— A 2-year, retrospective, 5-center study was conducted, 222 patients were identified. Seventy-nine (35.6%) these met eligibility criteria for the (age >40 weeks postconception 3 minutes duration, survival ≥12 hours return circulation, no asphyxia). Twenty-nine (36.7%) 79 received cooled to 33.7±1.3°C 20.8±11.9 hours. associated higher (P=0.009), greater duration (P=0.005), more resuscitative interventions (P<0.001), postresuscitation lactate levels use extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (P<0.001). When adjustment made duratio...