Skip to main content

Table 2 Temperatures in degrees Celsius in correlation to morbidity and mortality

From: Relationship between time to target temperature and outcome in patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest

 

Best CPC 1-2

285 (48)

Best CPC 3-4

286 (49)

P value

Survivors

284 (48)

Dead

304 (52)

P value

Tty 1st

35.3 (34.6-36)

35.4 (34.5-36.1)

0.92

35.2 (34.4-36)

35.5 (34.7-36.2)

0.05

Tty cool start

35.1 (34.1-35.8)

34.5 (33.6-35.7)

0.15

34.6 (33.8-35.4)

34.9 (33.9-35.9)

0.29

Tes 1st

35.9 (34.9-36.4)

35.2 (34.2-36)

0.05

35.7 (34.9-36.4)

35.2 (34.5-36.4)

0.32

Tes cool start

35.6 (34.8-36.2)

35.1 (34.2-35.9)

<0.01

35.2 (34.5-36)

35.5 (34.6-36.1)

0.27

Tbl 1st

35.6 (34.9-36.2)

35.3 (34.6-35.9)

0.09

35.4 (34.7-36)

35.5 (34.9-36)

0.98

Tbl cool start

35.8 (34.9-36.5)

35.4 (34.6-36.1)

<0.01

35.7 (34.6-36.3)

35.6 (34.7-36.3)

0.95

  1. Temperature data between April 1995 and June 2008 were collected from 588 patients. The best cerebral performance category (CPC) achieved within 6 months after cardiac arrest was used; this was not available in 17 patients who died during anesthesia. Data are presented as median (interquartile range). The two-sample Wilcoxon rank-sum (Mann-Whitney) test and Fisher exact test, as appropriate, were used to compare variables in the surviving and dead groups and the favorable and unfavorable neurologic outcome (CPC 1-2 versus 3-4) groups. Tbl, bladder temperature; Tes, esophageal temperature; Tty, tympanic temperature.
Back to article page

Critical Care

ISSN: 1364-8535