NEWS:
Ladies Home Journal. It's a Miracle: Three Women's Stories of Survival. Featuring Dr. Abella and CRS survivor.
332nd EMDG US Air Force cools a soldier in Iraq using CRS website protocols. April 14, 2011
6ABC: Therapeutic hypothermia helping cardiac arrest patients. Quick response and a treatment called therapeutic hypothermia helping more survive and thrive after cardiac arrest.
MSNBC: Cooling therapy has chilling effect on heart attack deaths: Read how the CRS and therapeutic hypothermia helped save a life!
A cool way...literally...to help cardiac arrest victims: Read about the Delaware Office of Emergency Services' mobile therapeutic hypothermia.
Freezing the Heart to Save the Life: See the recent Popular Science article profiling the work of the Dr. Lance Becker, Dr. Benjamin Abella, and the Center for Resuscitation Science.
Hypothermia research profiled in JAMA:
Researchers Warm Up to Hypothermia Use After Cardiac and Brain Trauma.
Tracy Hampton.
JAMA. 2007;298(17):1994-1995
(click here for a PDF version)
PROTOCOLS:
We have over 120 protocols in our database as of November 9, 2012
Click below to see HUP's hypothermia pathway:
Post-Resuscitation Care/Therapeutic Hypothermia
These pages are intended for use by physicians, nurses and other health care professionals who are interested in the care of patients after they are resuscitated from cardiac arrest. While Advanced Cardiopulmonary Life Support (ACLS) guidelines provide consensus information on the recognition and treatment of cardiac arrest in the form of “links” in the “chain of survival”, the care of patients after resuscitation remains a “missing link”. It is hoped that these pages will contribute towards filling this void.
At the present time, the most important specific treatment for a patient surviving cardiac arrest may be the induction of therapeutic hypothermia. A number of animal and clinical studies have supported the use of this treatment, and international guidelines have been published regarding the use of this exciting new modality.
The majority of content on these resource pages focus on therapeutic hypothermia and practical issues of how hospitals can develop protocols for use.
Questions or comments can be directed to Benjamin Abella, MD, MPhil (benjamin.abella@uphs.upenn.edu), David F. Gaieski, MD (gaieskid@uphs.upenn.edu), or Marion Leary RN, BSN (marion.leary@uphs.upenn.edu).
See a map of institutions that use Therapeutic Hypothermia around the globe!
Penn Hypothermia Discussion Forum
The CRS has developed a forum to generate inter-hospital discussion on hypothermia implementation. For more information on the forum, or to become a member, please refer to this manual or email Audrey Blewer at audrey.blewer@uphs.upenn.edu.
Hypothermia and Resuscitation Training Institute At Penn
The Center for Resuscitation Science at the University of Pennsylvania is hosting several of the workshops, the next of which is March 14-15, 2013.
Click here for more information.
Penn Alliance for Therapeutic Hypothermia (PATH)
The PATH database is the first national U.S. clinical registry focused on therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest. For more information on PATH, click here.
Post-Cardiac Arrest Transfers to HUP
Click here to read about the Hospital of the University of Pennyslvania's (HUP) transfer service that provides post-cardiac arrest patients with therapeutic hypothermia. HUP accepts transfers from hospitals within the PennSTAR flight program's service range, a 100 mile radius around the city of Philadelphia.
Brochure for family member's of hypothermia patients
Click here to view the Penn CRS brochure "Therapeutic Hypothermia: Caring for a loved one during hypothermia."
Hospitals That Provide Therapeutic Hypothermia
Click here for a list of more than 370 hospitals in the United States, Australia, Central America, Asia and Europe that provide therapeutic hypothermia.