Post Arrest Therapeutic Hypothermia

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I found this, which talks about the improved neurological benefits of therapeutic hypothermia post ROSC.

Mild Hypothermia Results In Enhanced Neurologic Outcomes For Victims of Cardiac Arrest
http://carlsongroup.stores.yahoo.net/therhypresin.html
Seventy-five of the 136 patients in the hypothermia group for whom data were available (55 percent) had a favorable neurologic outcome (cerebral-performance category, 1 [good recovery] or 2 [moderate disability]), as compared with 54 of 137 (39 percent) in the normothermia group (risk ratio, 1.40; 95 percent confidence interval, 1.08 to 1.81). Mortality at six months was 41 percent in the hypothermia group (56 of 137 patients died), as compared with 55 percent in the normothermia group (76 of 138 patients; risk ratio, 0.74; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.58 to 0.95). The complication rate did not differ significantly between the two groups.
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What are the systemic and adverse effects of therapeutic hypothermia? After all hypothermia is a life threatening emergency. In the case of re-arrest wouldn't the hypothermia make it harder to bring them back?
 
I'm pretty sure there was a thread on this already Sasha, you might want to check it out.
 
NYC is conducting a trial of this right now.
 
Maybe it's the way I searched it, but I DID do a search. There was
87 pages pertaining to the topic, I scanned the first two pages and all I found were threads on like treatment of cold injuries. I'm sure the topic has been covered but I couldn't find the thread.

Edit: No sooner did I post this but I found a thread. Sorry.
 
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