Trial Focuses on Duration of Therapeutic Hypothermia for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests

Trial Focuses on Duration of Therapeutic Hypothermia for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests

By Ananya Sen Each year more than 250,000 people in the United States experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrests. Approximately 90% of patients do not survive. Since the heart is unable to pump blood into the brain during an arrest, many patients suffer irreversible brain damage even when the heart can be restarted. For the past two decades, doctors have been using therapeutic hypothermia to prevent or treat brain injury in comatose survivors of…