“Therapeutic hypothermia” for post-cardiac arrest is officially over

New AHA guidelines end the targeted temperature management era

Targeted temperature management post-cardiac arrest is optional, says AHA

New guidelines from the American Heart Association have effectively ended the two decade era of cooling comatose patients post-cardiac arrest. The new advisement: prevent fevers by keeping core temperature ≤37.5° C; cooling below that is optional. Read on for details. PulmCCM is no…