Therapeutic Hypothermia after In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Children

Frank W Moler1, Faye S Silverstein1, Richard Holubkov1

  • 1From the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (F.W.M., F.S.S.), and Wayne State University, Detroit (K.L.M., S. Shankaran) - both in Michigan; University of Utah, Salt Lake City (R. Holubkov, B.B., K.P., M.R.G., K.S.B., A.E.C., J.M.D.); Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University (B.S.S., J.R.C.) and Johns Hopkins Children's Center (U.S.B.), Baltimore, and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda (V.L.P.) - both in Maryland; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia (V.M.N., A.T.), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh (E.L.F.), and Penn State Children's Hospital, Hershey (N.J.T.) - all in Pennsylvania; Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham (B.R.S.), Great Ormond Street Hospital, London (S. Skellett), Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool (P.B.B.), and University Hospital Southampton, Southampton (J.P.) - all in the United Kingdom; Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (J.S.H.); Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC (J.T.B.); Duke Children's Hospital, Durham, NC (G.O.-A.); Children's Hospital Los Angeles (C.J.L.N.) and Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA (R. Harrison), Los Angeles, Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange (A.J.S.), University of California, San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco (P.M.), and Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, Loma Linda (M.M.) - all in California; Children's Medical Center Dallas, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas (J.D.K.); University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, San Antonio (T.W.); Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta (N.P., N.K.C.); Washington University, St. Louis (J.A.P.); Phoenix Children's Hospital, Phoenix, AZ (H.J.D.); the Children's Hospital of Alabama, Birmingham (J.A.); Children's Hospital of New York, Columbia University Medical Center, New York (C.L.S.), and Golisano Children's Hospital, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester (E.W.J.) - both in New York; Ann and Robert Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago (D.M.G.); Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle (J.J.Z.); Kosair Children's Hospital, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY (M.B.P.); University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis (S. Shah); Children's Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis (J.E.N.); Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH (E.L.); Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora (E.L.D.); Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (M.T.M.); and Arkansas Children's Hospital, Little Rock (R.C.S.).

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