Prehospital Resuscitation Intranasal Cooling Effectiveness Survival Study 2

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Early transnasal evaporative cooling with the RhinoChill device: Early prehospital transnasal evaporative cooling followed by systemic hypothermia to 33 degrees Celsius for 24 hours and fever control for 72 hours

Study summary

The aim of this clinical trial is to study the impact of ultra-early transnasal evaporative cooling after cardiac arrest and subsequent hypothermia at hospital, on survival with complete neurologic recovery, compared to currently recommended normothermia. The study population will consist of patients 18-79 years old, with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with initial shockable rhythm.

The main research question it aims to answer is whether there is a difference in survival with complete neurologic recovery at 90 days after cardiac arrest between the group of patients that received ultra-early cooling, compared to the group that was treated with normothermia.

Participants will be randomized to two groups. One group (the intervention group) will receive ultra-early trans-nasal evaporative cooling initiated by EMS personnel at the scene of the cardiac arrest, and subsequent systemic hypothermia for 24 hours at hospital arrival. The other group (the control group), will receive standard of care (advanced cardiac life support and normal body temperature (normothermia)).

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Proportion of patients surviving with complete neurologic recovery at 90 days defined as modified Rankin scale (mRs) of 0-1. — Day 90
  The modified Rankin Scale is a scoring system on neurologic function ranging from 0-6, where 0 means no symtoms at all, higher numbers indicating increasing neurologic disabilities and 6 equals death.

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