Comparison of 1-year neurological outcome between intra-hospital and extra-hospital cardiac arrest survivors submitted to mild therapeutic hypothermia in a community-based setting in Brazil

Mild therapeutic hypothermia (MTH) is the most powerful therapy to improve survival and neurologic outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Such benefit may also occur for unconscious patients after in-hospital cardiac arrest. The aim is to compare 1-year evolution of neurological outcomes of patients treated with MTH after in-hospital versus out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.