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Does cooling the wrong patients heat up the costs?
Critical Care volume 8, Article number: P302 (2004)
Background and goals
Materials and methods
We evaluated 10 patients who received MIH after non-VF-(asystole, pulsless electric activity) out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (NVF-OHCA) and compared them with a historic control (n = 9) of NVF-OHCA who as not treated with MIH. The ICU and hospital length of stays as well as the incidence of bad outcome were compared. Bad outcome was defined as cerebral performance category (CPC) ≥ 3 or death [3].
Results
Data are presented in Table 1.
Conclusion
The tendency towards prolongation of length of stay at even poor outcome suggests that a liberal MIH inclusion policy may result in a dissatisfactory cost–benefit ratio. Further research and larger patient numbers are needed to verify these results.
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Busch, M., Soreide, E. Does cooling the wrong patients heat up the costs?. Crit Care 8 (Suppl 1), P302 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1186/cc2769
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Keywords
- Public Health
- Emergency Medicine
- Cardiac Arrest
- Electric Activity
- Ventricular Fibrillation