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ReviewScandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine2009

Out-of-hospital therapeutic hypothermia in cardiac arrest victims.

Wilhelm Behringer, Jasmin Arrich, Michael Holzer, Fritz Sterz

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Review in Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
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  3. Service as joint editor-in-chief for 11 years comes to an end: adieu, godspeed and auf wiedersehn!Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2015
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  4. Review
  5. Prehospital cooling in cardiac arrest--the next frontier?Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2009
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Wilhelm BehringerDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital, Vienna, Austria. wilhelm.behringer@meduniwien.ac.at
Jasmin Arrich
Michael Holzer
Fritz Sterz
Medical University of Vienna · ATVienna General Hospital · AT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite many years of research, outcome after cardiac arrest is dismal. Since 2005, the European Resuscitation Council recommends in its guidelines the use of mild therapeutic hypothermia (32-34 degrees) for 12 to 24 hours in patients successfully resuscitated from cardiac arrest. The benefit of resuscitative mild hypothermia (induced after resuscitation) is well established, while the benefit of preservative mild to moderate hypothermia (induced during cardiac arrest) needs further investigation before recommending it for clinical routine. Animal data and limited human data suggest that early and fast cooling might be essential for the beneficial effect of resuscitative mild hypothermia. Out-of-hospital cooling has been shown to be feasible and safe by means of intravenous infusion with cold fluids or non-invasively with cooling pads. A combination of these cooling methods might further improve cooling efficacy. If out-of-hospital cooling will further improve functional outcome as compared with in-hospital cooling needs to be determined in a prospective, randomised, sufficiently powered clinical trial.

Indexed as

Emergency Medical ServicesHeart ArrestHumansHypothermia, InducedOutcome Assessment, Health Care

Identifiers

PMID19821966
PMCPMC2766361
OpenAlexW2069490223

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