Therapeutic Hypothermia in Cardiac Arrest

During the 2018 Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management Meeting in Miami, a state-of-the-art round table discussion was presented on current advances of therapeutic hypothermia in cardiac arrest. Dr. Marko Noc, from the Center for Intensive Internal Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia moderated this interesting session. Dr. Hans Friberg from Lund University spoke on the current TTM2 study that will compare 33 degrees hypothermia treatment with fever control in postcardiac patients. Dr. Chien-Hua Huang from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan provided a lecture on therapeutic hypothermia in postresuscitation in Asia providing very interesting registry data. Finally, Dr. Philip E. Empey from the Center for Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Pittsburgh delivered an important lecture on the effect of targeted temperature management on drug deposition and response from cardiac arrest. Each of these three presentations was outstanding and generated considerable discussion during our question and answer session.