Introduction

Abstract

In 2010 I attended my first Resuscitation Science Symposium (ReSS) in Chicago, Illinois. As an Emergency Cardiac Care Fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center (VCUMC), I had begun to ask questions about cardiac arrest and the use of therapeutic hypothermia. At VCUMC, the Advanced Resuscitation Cooling Therapeutic Intensive Care (ARCTIC) team provided a multidisciplinary approach to patients admitted after cardiac arrest. They had improved survival and neurological outcomes with comprehensive post-resuscitation care but many questions remained.