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Characterizing the impact of thermoregulation in patients after cardiac arrest: a retrospective cohort study.
Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia 2024 March 22
PURPOSE: Core body temperature has been extensively investigated as a thereuptic target in care after cardiac arrest. Nevertheless, the integrity of thermoregulation in patients after cardiac arrest has not been well studied. We sought to evaluate whether low spontaneous body temperature after cardiac arrest is associated with increased death and a worse neurologic outcome, and whether patients with low spontaneous body temperature exhibit features suggestive of impaired thermoregulation.
METHODS: We conducted a single-centre retrospective cohort study. We included all adult patients who underwent temperature control with hypothermia after cardiac arrest between 1 January 2014 and 30 June 2020. The primary exposure was low spontaneous core body temperature (< 35 °C) at initiation of hypothermia therapy. The primary outcome was in-hospital death and the secondary outcome was poor neurologic outcomes at discharge.
RESULTS: Five hundred and ninety-seven adult patients, comprising both in- and out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, were included. Patients with low spontaneous body temperature also had slightly lower average temperature, and more frequent transient but controlled breakthrough fever episodes in the first 24 hr. In the multivariable logistic regression analysis, low spontaneous body temperature was associated with higher odds of in-hospital death (odds ratio, 2.9; 95% confidence interval, 1.9 to 4.2; P < 0.001).
CONCLUSION: In this single-centre retrospective cohort study, low spontaneous core body temperature was associated with poor outcomes in patients after cardiac arrest. Patients with low spontaneous body temperature also exhibited features suggestive of impaired thermoregulation. Further research is needed to determine whether body temperature upon presentation reflects the robustness of the patient's underlying physiology and severity of brain insult after a cardiac arrest.
METHODS: We conducted a single-centre retrospective cohort study. We included all adult patients who underwent temperature control with hypothermia after cardiac arrest between 1 January 2014 and 30 June 2020. The primary exposure was low spontaneous core body temperature (< 35 °C) at initiation of hypothermia therapy. The primary outcome was in-hospital death and the secondary outcome was poor neurologic outcomes at discharge.
RESULTS: Five hundred and ninety-seven adult patients, comprising both in- and out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, were included. Patients with low spontaneous body temperature also had slightly lower average temperature, and more frequent transient but controlled breakthrough fever episodes in the first 24 hr. In the multivariable logistic regression analysis, low spontaneous body temperature was associated with higher odds of in-hospital death (odds ratio, 2.9; 95% confidence interval, 1.9 to 4.2; P < 0.001).
CONCLUSION: In this single-centre retrospective cohort study, low spontaneous core body temperature was associated with poor outcomes in patients after cardiac arrest. Patients with low spontaneous body temperature also exhibited features suggestive of impaired thermoregulation. Further research is needed to determine whether body temperature upon presentation reflects the robustness of the patient's underlying physiology and severity of brain insult after a cardiac arrest.
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