Therapeutic Hypothermia to Reduce Cardiac Arrest-Related Neurological Deficits and Mortality

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  • February 26, 2019
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  • Legare, Angel
    • Affiliation: School of Medicine, Department of Allied Health Sciences, Physician Assistant Program
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  • Purpose: The purpose of this clinical review is to determine if induced therapeutic hypothermia is effective in reducing neurological deficits and mortality in cardiac arrest patients. Methods: PubMed, Cochrane Review Database, Embase, and Trip database were utilized. A common set of search terms including "induced hypothermia", "therapeutic hypothermia”, "cardiovascular resuscitation", “cardiac arrest”, "neurological deficits", “neurological outcome” and “mortality” guided the search. A total of three individual studies that were included for final results review. Results: Clinically based trials revealed that induced therapeutic hypothermia can improve both survival rates and neurological outcomes in cardiac arrest patients compared to cardiac arrest patients that do not receive therapeutic hypothermia. Conclusion: Although more research needs to be done to make therapeutic hypothermia implemented across all cardiac arrest patients, current research has suggested that therapeutic hypothermia implantation in cardiac arrest protocols can prove to be extremely beneficial in improving patient survival rates and neurological outcome.
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  • Bludorn, Janelle
  • Kirkland, Lindi
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  • Master of Health Science
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • 2017
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