Canadian Guidelines for the use of targeted temperature management (therapeutic hypothermia) after cardiac arrest: A joint statement from The Canadian Critical Care Society (CCCS), Canadian Neurocritical Care Society (CNCCS), and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group (CCCTG)

Since the publication of two landmark articles in 2002,1,2 the practice of controlling a patient's core temperature after resuscitation from cardiac arrest has been an important therapeutic option. Targeted Temperature Management (TTM), previously known as therapeutic hypothermia or protective hypothermia,3 is well recognized and accepted as part of post-resuscitative care.4,5 It involves active treatment that tries to achieve and maintain a...