Cooling children after cardiac arrest provides no significant benefit

(Wayne State University - Office of the Vice President for Research) A recent clinical trial, published in the New England Journal of Medicine and co-authored by the Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Medical Center (DMC) Chief of Critical Care and Wayne State University School of Medicine Professor of Pediatrics Kathleen L. Meert, M.D., shows that 'therapeutic hypothermia' is no more effective than maintaining normal body temperature in children who've suffered cardiac arrest before being...