A quick update on an TTM2 trial published in the NEJM last month. As part of the chain of survival it’s important to optimise the post resuscitation phase, primarily to […]
JC: The TTM2 trial. Normothermia or hypothermia post cardiac arrest. Read More
This month I was lucky enough to be invited to speak in Slovenia at the European Resus Council meeting. It was a super place to visit and a wonderful conference.
European Resuscitation Council meeting: Slovenia 2019. St Emlyn’s Read More
Paradoxically hypothermia has been a ‘hot’ topic in emergency medicine and critical care for many years. There is good laboratory, animal and pathophysiological data to suggest that it should be
JC: Hypothermia in brain injury: The POLAR trial. St Emlyn’s. Read More
It seems as though hypothermia is the therapy that never quite gets there. The Targeted Temperature Management1,2 trial showed no benefit post ROSC and the RINSE trial 3,4 showed no
Hypothermia in status epilepticus. St.Emlyn’s Read More
This week we look at the RINSE trial1, a trial examining the prehospital use of hypothermia in post cardiac arrest patients. Therapeutic hypothermia has had a bit of a rollercoaster
JC. Pre-hospital therapeutic hypothermia: The RINSE trial. St.Emlyn’s Read More
We have looked at therapeutic hypothermia not once, not twice, but three times already here at St Emlyn’s;Â most of our ED consultants also work, at least some of the time,
JC: Getting Chilly Quickly 4. Doing It For The Kids Read More
In a rather strange co-incidence two articles landed on my desk this soggy Sunday morning. Firstly we have an RCT of intra-arrest therapeutic hypothermia published in Intensive Care Medicine. Secondly
JC: Getting Chilly Quickly 3. Hypothermia at St.Emlyn’s Read More
Many thanks to the twitter FOAMites for alerting us to an online first paper in the NEJM on the use of therapeutic hypothermia post cardiac arrest. If you’ve followed St.Emlyn’s
JC: What’s the target temperature for OOHCA cooling. St.Emlyn’s Read More
