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Published in: Intensive Care Medicine 4/2013

01-04-2013 | Original

Predictors of external cooling failure after cardiac arrest

Authors: Sylvie Ricome, Florence Dumas, Nicolas Mongardon, Olivier Varenne, Jérôme Fichet, Frédéric Pène, Benjamin Zuber, Benoît Vivien, Julien Charpentier, Jean-Daniel Chiche, Jean-Paul Mira, Alain Cariou

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 4/2013

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Abstract

Purpose

External cooling is largely employed to induce hypothermia in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest (CA), but can fail to reach the target temperature in a reasonable time. We aimed to assess the rate of failure of external cooling after CA and to determine failure predictors.

Methods

The study was a retrospective review of a prospectively acquired database in the setting of a 24-bed ICU in a university hospital. All consecutive patients admitted for CA from May 2002 to April 2010 and treated by external cooling were considered. Patients who were already hypothermic on admission, patients dying within 24 h, patients cooled by an internal technique and patients in whom hypothermia had not been attempted were not studied. External cooling failure was defined as the inability to reach a temperature below 34 °C during the first 12 h after CA onset.

Results

Among 1,036 patients admitted to the ICU, 594 were included in the analysis and in 191 (32 %) the target temperature could not be achieved within the 12 h following CA. Independent risk factors for external cooling failure were an early coronary angiography intervention (OR 3.75, p < 0.001), a high body weight (OR 1.02 per kilogram, p = 0.007), a high temperature on ICU admission (OR 1.47 per degree, p = 0.001) and a long delay between collapse and the start of cooling (OR 1.15, p = 0.05). Conversely, early haemodialysis (OR 0.27, p < 0.001) and male gender (OR 0.47, p = 0.02) were significantly associated with cooling success.

Conclusion

External cooling failure occurred in nearly one-third of patients with CA and was associated with easily identified risk factors. This emphasizes the interest in early cooling and alternative techniques in these patients.
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Metadata
Title
Predictors of external cooling failure after cardiac arrest
Authors
Sylvie Ricome
Florence Dumas
Nicolas Mongardon
Olivier Varenne
Jérôme Fichet
Frédéric Pène
Benjamin Zuber
Benoît Vivien
Julien Charpentier
Jean-Daniel Chiche
Jean-Paul Mira
Alain Cariou
Publication date
01-04-2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 4/2013
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-012-2794-7

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