Bernard 2002

Therapeutic Hypothermia after VF Arrest (Bernard)

Patient / Population Intervention / Exposition Vergleich Endpunkt

In 77 comatose survivors of out-of-hospital VF arrest, hypothermia to 33 °C improved good neurologic outcome compared with normothermia.

N
77
Design
Quasi-randomised single-country RCT
Endpunkt
Good neurologic outcome at discharge
Relevanz
3
Ergebnis49% vs 26% (p=0.046).
Bernard SA, et al. N Engl J Med. 2002;346(8):557-563. 10.1056/NEJMoa003289
Diskussion & Kritik

Underpowered and quasi-randomised; effect later not reproduced in TTM/TTM2.