Cardiac Arrest at Home? Chill Out !

  Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) by reducing body core temperature to 36 degrees C has been shown to improve outcomes after witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from ventricular fibrillation.

Cochrane Database Syst Rev2016;2:CD004128

  BUT in a recent study TH was NOT found to be beneficial in comatose patients that suffered a cardiac arrest in the hospital.

JAMA 2016 Oct 4;316:1375