When Cooling a Patient After Cardiac Arrest, Does Use of a Neuromuscular Blocking Agent Make Your Job Easier?
Status:
Unknown status
Trial end date:
2015-02-01
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Summary
After successful resuscitation from cardiac arrest, cooling the whole body is a well
established treatment that improves the chances of the brain recovering. This however, has to
be done within a certain time-frame from the arrest. The purpose of this study is to explore
the best way of dosing the muscle relaxing medications that are given during the cooling
process.
Hypothesis: In the context of our institutional therapeutic hypothermia protocol,
cisatracurium infusions lead to faster drops in core temperature when compared to
cisatracurium prn boluses alone.