Summary
This is a multicenter trial to establish the efficacy of cooling and the optimal duration of induced hypothermia for neuroprotection in pediatric comatose survivors of cardiac arrest.
The study team hypothesizes that longer durations of cooling may improve either the proportion of children that attain a good neurobehavioral recovery or may result in better recovery among the proportion already categorized as having a good outcome.
Keywords
Cardiac Arrest, Out-Of-Hospital, Hypothermia, Induced, Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain, Bayesian Adaptive Clinical Trial, Hypothermia, therapeutic, Coma, Pediatric, Brain Ischemia, Brain Hypoxia-Ischemia, Heart Arrest, Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest, Hypoxia, Hypothermia, Therapeutic Hypothermia, Cooling 0 hours, Cooling 12 hours, Cooling 18 hours, Cooling 24 hours, Cooling 36 hours, Cooling 48 hours, Cooling 60 hours, Cooling 72 hours, Cooling 84 hours, Cooling 96 hours