High-Volume Hemofiltration After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
A Randomized Study
Ivan Laurent, MD*,
Christophe Adrie, MD
,
Christophe Vinsonneau, MD*,
Alain Cariou, MD*,
Jean-Daniel Chiche, MD*,
Alice Ohanessian, MD
,
Christian Spaulding, MD
,
Pierre Carli, MD
,
Jean-François Dhainaut, MD, PhD* and
Mehran Monchi, MD*,*
* Medical ICU, Cochin Teaching Hospital, Rene Descartes University, Paris, France
General ICU, Delafontaine Hospital, Saint Denis, France
Cardiology Department, Cochin Teaching Hospital, Rene Descartes University, Paris, France
SAMU, Necker Hospital, Rene Descartes University, Paris, France.

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Figure 1 Kaplan-Meier survival curves in each group (log-rank p = 0.018). Patients treated by hemofiltration (HF) only (p = 0.026) or hemofiltration with hypothermia (HF+HT) (p = 0.018) differed significantly from patients in the control group.
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