In-hospital hypothermia

Mild therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest has become standard in post-resuscitation care in many hospitals as it is recommended by current guidelines. The last update of guidelines by the European Resuscitation Council on post-cardiac arrest treatment in 2010 recommends hypothermia for every patient after cardiac arrest who remains unconscious after cardiac arrest [ 1 ]. In addition to milestone trials [ 2 – 4 ], current published retrospective data from the large Finnish registry showed in a large group of patients a significant reduction of hospital mortality of survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest after implementation of hypothermia [ 5 ].