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ArticleCurrent treatment options in cardiovascular medicine2016

Therapeutic Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest.

Sunjeet S Sidhu, Steven P Schulman, John W McEvoy

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Article in Current treatment options in cardiovascular medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Sunjeet S SidhuJohns Hopkins Coronary Care Unit and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Carnegie 524C, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
Steven P SchulmanJohns Hopkins Coronary Care Unit and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Carnegie 524C, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA.
John W McEvoyJohns Hopkins Coronary Care Unit and Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Carnegie 524C, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21287, USA. jmcevoy1@jhmi.edu.
Johns Hopkins University · USJohns Hopkins Medicine · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

opinion statementResuscitated cardiac arrest continues to carry a poor prognosis despite advances in medical care. One such advance, therapeutic hypothermia, is neuroprotective and has been demonstrated to improve clinical outcomes in patients who remain unresponsive despite return of spontaneous circulation after arrhythmogenic cardiac arrest. Two landmark randomized controlled trials, both reported in 2002, led to endorsements by major American and European guidelines for therapeutic hypothermia as a viable treatment option for the prevention of adverse outcomes related to anoxic encephalopathy. Since then, significant research has been conducted to better understand the optimum strategies to maximize the neuroprotective effects of hypothermia. However, dissemination of therapeutic hypothermia guideline recommendations into clinical practice has been slow and incomplete. In this review article, we discuss the historical background and physiologic rationale for therapeutic hypothermia, review the recent literature supporting this intervention, and outline practical considerations.

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Anoxic encephalopathyCardiac arrestTargeted temperature managementTherapeutic hypothermia

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PMID26923383
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