Background: Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) after cardiac arrest protects from neurological
sequels and death and is recommended in guidelines. The Hypothermia Registry was …

Background Patients who are treated with targeted temperature management after out-of-
hospital cardiac arrest with shockable rhythm are at increased risk for ventilator-associated …

Objectives: To investigate the association between adverse events recorded during critical
care and mortality in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients treated with therapeutic …

Rationale: Although frequent, little is known about early-onset pneumonia that occurs in the
postresuscitation period. Although induced hypothermia is recommended as a method of …

Objectives: Infectious complications are frequently reported in critically ill patients, especially
after cardiac arrest. Recent and widespread use of therapeutic hypothermia has raised …

Zusammenfassung Der Herz-Kreislauf-Stillstand mit kardiopulmonaler Reanimation bewirkt
ein Ischämie-Reperfusion-Syndrom des gesamten Körpers. Einerseits liegt eine lokalisierte …

Cardiac arrest and successful resuscitation cause whole-body ischemia and reperfusion,
leading to brain injury and extracerebral multiple organ dysfunction. Brain injury is the …

Introduction Prophylactic antibiotics (PRO) reduce the incidence of early-onset pneumonia
in comatose patients with structural brain injury, but have not been examined in cardiac …

Soluble triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1 (sTREM-1) and procalcitonin (PCT)
are often considered to be specific markers for infection. We evaluated plasma levels of …

Objective To evaluate the incidence, risk factors, foci, isolated organisms, and outcomes of
infections in the survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) within the first 7 days after …