Selenium to Improve Neurological Outcome After Cardiac Arrest
Status:
Withdrawn
Trial end date:
2019-07-01
Target enrollment:
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Summary
After cardiac arrest and successful resuscitation it can happen that the brain function of a
patient is impaired because the brain was without oxygen for a prolonged period of time.
Several strategies have been studied to improve brain function after cardiac arrest. Cooling
of the patients is routinely used today. The trace element selenium has several biological
functions and is important for defense mechanisms against oxidative stress, which occurs
after cardiac arrest and successful resuscitation. critically ill patients have low selenium
blood levels. Therefore the investigators hypothesize that giving selenium after cardiac
arrest and successful resuscitation might improve brain function.