In the article “Targeted temperature management after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Who, when, why, and how?”1—which appeared in the February 2015 issue of Canadian Family Physician—there was an incorrect statement published about the number of patients randomized in a study. The statement should have read as follows:
The Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest Study Group randomized 275 patients aged 18 to 75 years after witnessed OHCA [out-of-hospital cardiac arrest] with an initial rhythm of VF [ventricular fibrillation] or nonperfusing ventricular tachycardia who had no “response to verbal commands” and an interval time of collapse to EMS [emergency medical services] arrival of 5 to 15 minutes.
The authors apologize for this error and for any inconvenience it might have caused.
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