Prehospital therapeutic hypothermia in cardiac arrest: will there ever be evidence?

Prehospital therapeutic hypothermia in cardiac arrest: will there ever be evidence?

Bruel and colleagues nicely demonstrate that the infusion of 2 l cold saline during resuscitation is a feasible, effective, and safe measure to induce therapeutic hypothermia in out-ofhospital cardiac arrest [1]. Therapeutic hypothermia was induced in 33 eligible advanced life support patients before primary survival was foreseeable, and was continued in 11 patients after intensive care unit ad...

Prehospital Therapeutic Hypothermia for Cardiac Arrest

Therapeutic hypothermia in cardiac arrest.

Approximately 275 000 Europeans per year experience out-ofhospital cardiac arrest, with huge differences in survival ranging from more than 30% in some cities to just a few percent in others. The main cause of these significant survival differences is differences in overall quality of the treatment, both pre-hospital during resuscitation and in-hospital after return of spontaneous circulation. ...

Will There Ever Be Consensus on CS1?

The choice of programming language, the approach by which students are taught and the software tools made available to students have been controversial issues in many ways. While there once was a consensus of some sort within the computer science education community, it is much more difficult to find common ground among those of us who teach introductory programming courses. The literature is e...

Therapeutic Hypothermia for Cardiac Arrest

In the era before Therapeutic Hypothermia (TH) was recommended and used as a therapeutic modality for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients, reported data suggests in-hospital mortality exceeded 58%.[1,2,3,4,5,6] Mortality after a sudden and unexpected cardiac arrest (CA) is high, and the chance of survival to hospital discharge has, until recently, remained unchanged.[7] In one report...