TTM

ICEREA Trial Summary: Endovascular Versus External TTM in Cardiac Arrest

2015 ICEREA TRIAL Endovascular versus external targeted temperature management for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest multicenter, prospective, randomized controlled trial Objective: To evaluate if endovascular cooling is superior to external targeted temperature management in regards to favorable outcome after out-of-hospital … Read More

POLAR Trial Summary: Prophylactic Hypothermia in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

2018 POLAR TRIAL Prophylactic hypothermia for severe traumatic brain injury Multicentre, partially-blinded, randomised controlled trial Objective: To determine the effectiveness of early prophylactic hypothermia compared with normothermic management of patients after severe traumatic brain injury 511 patients Inclusion criteria: Intubated … Read More

TTM 48 Trial Summary: TTM for 48 hours in Cardiac Arrest

2017 2017 TTM 48 TRIAL M Targeted Temperature Management for 48 vs 24 hours and neurologic outcome after out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OOHCA) Multicenter,blinded,parallel,pragmatic,randomized superiority trial Objective: To determine neurologic outcomes with Targeted Temperature Management (TTM) at 33°C for 48 hours … Read More

ANTHARTIC Trial Summary: Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia after Cardiac Arrest

2019 ANTHARTIC TRIAL M Prevention of early Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia after cardiac arrest Multicentre, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled Objective: To investigate whether in post out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOHCA) patients treated with targeted temperature management, does the use of empirical antibiotics prevent early … Read More