Jun 25, 2023 · Absolute contraindications to therapeutic hypothermia include hemorrhagic stroke, GCS > 8, uncontrolled bleeding, uncontrolled hemodynamically unstable rhythms, and cardiac …

Oct 1, 2021 · Hypothyroidism and adrenal insufficiency can both cause hypothermia and must always be considered. In very ill patients, it may be appropriate to start therapy immediately …

Jan 15, 2013 · Use of therapeutic hypothermia should include comatose survivors of cardiac arrest associated initially with nonshockable rhythms and shockable rhythms. The lower level …

Aug 29, 2022 · Current evidence suggests that normothermia and actively avoiding fever (>37.7 o C) has no significant difference in morbidity or mortality (including QoL and functional …

Contraindications include hemorrhagic stroke, a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 8 or higher, cardiac arrest due to drug overdose, and preexisting hypothermia.

Hypothermia initially causes sinus tachycardia, then bradycardia. With temp <30oC there is an increased risk for arrhyt hmias. With temp < 28oC there is an increased risk for ventricular …

Oct 18, 2024 · Inducing mild therapeutic hypothermia in selected patients surviving out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest can significantly improve rates of long-term neurologically intact survival …

Oct 26, 2022 · Few contraindications limit the use of therapeutic hypothermia in patients who are critically ill, and it mainly stems from the exclusion criteria of the previous RCTs on …

Neurologic prognosis of the comatose cardiac arrest survivor after therapeutic hypothermia cannot be reliably predicted until at least 72 hours after return to normothermia.

There are multiple issues to consider when inducing hypothermia such as mode of cooling and ease of implementation, patient safety and tolerability, speed of reaching target, duration of …