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Trial reportEuropean journal of clinical investigation2017

Observed survival benefit of mild therapeutic hypothermia reanalysing the Circulation Improving Resuscitation Care trial.

Alexander Nürnberger, Harald Herkner, Fritz Sterz, Jan-Aage Olsen, Michael Lozano, Pierre M van Grunsven, E Brooke Lerner, David Persse, Reinhard Malzer, Marc A Brouwer and 5 more

Open access · hybridAbstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in European journal of clinical investigation, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Trial
  2. [Postcardiac arrest treatment guide].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 11 institutions in 5 countries.

Alexander NürnbergerDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Wien, Austria.
Harald HerknerDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Wien, Austria.
Fritz SterzDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Wien, Austria.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5038-9083
Jan-Aage OlsenNorwegian National Advisory Unit on Prehospital Emergency Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Michael LozanoHillsborough County Fire Rescue, Hillsborough County Government, Tampa, FL, USA.
Pierre M van GrunsvenRegional Ambulance Service Gelderland-Zuid, TV Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
E Brooke LernerDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA.
David PersseHouston Fire Department and the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Reinhard MalzerWiener Rettung, Municipal Ambulance Service of Vienna, Wien, Austria.
Marc A BrouwerDepartment of Cardiology, Heart Lung Center, GA Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Mark WestfallGold Cross Ambulance Service, Appleton Neenah-Menasha and Grand Chute Fire Departments, Grand Chute, WI, USA.
Chris M SoudersHouston Fire Department and the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
David T TravisHillsborough County Fire Rescue, Hillsborough County Government, Tampa, FL, USA.
Ulrich R HerkenZOLL Medical Corporation, Chelmsford, MA, USA.
Lars WikNorwegian National Advisory Unit on Prehospital Emergency Medicine, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
Medical University of Vienna · ATNew York City Fire Department · USOslo University Hospital · NOAmbulance Care (Sweden) · SEChugai Pharma (United States) · USHillsborough County Public Schools · USHochschule Campus Wien · ATLake Erie College · USMedical College of Wisconsin · USRadboud University Nijmegen · NLWaters (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundMild therapeutic hypothermia is argued being beneficial for outcome after cardiac arrest. MATERIALS AND

methodsRetrospective analysis of Circulation Improving Resuscitation Care (CIRC) trial data to assess if therapeutic cooling to 33 ± 1 °C core temperature had an association with survival. Of 4231 adult, out-of-hospital cardiac arrests of presumed cardiac origin initially enrolled, eligibility criteria for therapeutic hypothermia were met by 1812. Logistic regression was undertaken in a stepwise fashion to account for the impact on outcome of each significant difference and for the variable of interest between the groups.

resultsOut-of- and in-hospital cooled were 263 (15%), only after admission cooled were 230 (13%) and not cooled were 357 (20%) patients. The group cooled out of- and in hospital had 98 (37%) survivors as compared to the groups cooled in hospital only [80 (35%)] and of those not cooled [68 (19%)]. After adjusting for known covariates (sex, age, witnessed cardiac arrest, no- and low-flow time, shockable initial rhythm, random allocation, bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation and percutaneous coronary intervention), the odds ratio for survival comparing no cooling to out-of- plus in-hospital cooling was 0·53 [95% confidence interval (CI): 0·46-0·61, P < 0·001], and comparing to in-hospital cooling only was 0·67 (95% CI: 0·50-0·89, P = 0·006).

conclusionMild therapeutic hypothermia initiated out of hospital and/or in hospital was associated with improved survival within this secondary analysis of the CIRC cohort compared to no therapeutic hypothermia.

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AdultAgedCardiopulmonary ResuscitationEmergency Medical ServicesFemaleHospitalizationHumansHypothermia, InducedMaleMiddle AgedOut-of-Hospital Cardiac ArrestRetrospective StudiesTreatment OutcomeCardiopulmonary resuscitationheart arrestresuscitationsurvivaltrials

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PMID28407232
PMCPMC5488218
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