Table 1 Characteristics of 15 observational studies including data on use of mild therapeutic hypothermia in patients with non-ventricular fibrillation/ventricular tachycardia (VF/VT) cardiac arrest

From: Therapeutic hypothermia: is it effective for non-VF/VT cardiac arrest?

			Non-VF/VT
Author [Reference]	Arrest location	Patients	Total	Cooled	Initiation of hypothermia	Cooling method	Control group	Definition of poor outcome	Length of follow-up
Holzer 2006 [27]	Mixed (OHCA 67%)	1,038	534	28	In-hospital	Internal	Concurrent	CPC 3-5	30 days
Oddo 2006 [21]	OHCA	109	23	12	In-hospital	External	Historical	CPC 3-5	Discharge
Heer 2007 [26]	Mixed	76	18	10	In-hospital	Internal	Historical	NA	Discharge
Sunde 2007 [29]	OHCA	119	15	6	In-hospital	Mixed	Historical	CPC 3-5	Discharge
Arrich 2007 [23]	Mixed (OHCA 83%)	587	197	124	In-hospital	Mixed	Concurrent	CPC 3-5	Discharge
Rittenberger 2008 [38]	Mixed (OHCA 56%)	241	81	42	In-hospital	Mixed	Concurrent	Discharged to a nursing home	Discharge
Storm 2008 [28]	OHCA	126	49	18	In-hospital	Mixed	Historical	CPC 3-5	Discharge
Don 2009 [24]	OHCA	491	313	122	In-hospital	External	Historical	CPC 2-5	Discharge
Whitfield 2009 [30]	OHCA	123	28	15	Pre/In-hospital	Mixed	Historical	Discharged to a nursing home	Discharge
Gaieski 2009 [39]	OHCA	38	18	9	In-hospital	Mixed	Historical	CPC 3-5	Discharge
Bro-Jeppesen 2009 [25]	OHCA	156	48	27	Pre/In-hospital	Mixed	Historical	CPC 3-5	6 months
Derwall 2009 [37]	OHCA	68	28	13	In-hospital	Mixed	Concurrent	CPC 3-5	14 days
Dumas 2011 [33]	OHCA	1,145	437	261	In-hospital	External	Historical	CPC 3-5	Discharge
Storm 2012 [34]	Mixed (OHCA 73%)	387	175	87	In-hospital	Mixed	Historical	CPC 1-2	90 days
Lundbye 2012 [35]	Mixed (OHCA 52%)	100	100	52	In-hospital	Internal	Historical	CPC 3-5	Discharge

OHCA: out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; CPC: Cerebral Performance Category.

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