| Dr. Ericka Fink Receives Grant from Laerdal Foundation. |
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Ericka Fink, MD, Assistant Professor of Critical Care Medicine in our Pediatric CCM Division, recently obtained a grant from the Laerdal Foundation to continue her studies on brain injury and resuscitation in children. She will use these funds to kickoff a single-site, randomized, prospective trial in pediatric cardiac arrest patients comparing different durations of mild hypothermia (24 vs. 72 h) for neuroprotection. She will use biomarkers in serum (neuron-specific enolase) and brain magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy (N-acetylaspartate, lactate, and sodium) to evaluate the response to duration of hypothermia, hypothesizing that 72 h will provide more evidence of reduced brain injury. Dr. Fink has just submitted a NIH K23 grant application, with multidisciplinary mentorship (primary mentor, Patrick Kochanek, MD) in support of this proposal. This study could provide critical insight into the optimal duration of mild therapeutic hypothermia in the setting of pediatric cardiac arrest and help guide future larger randomized clinical trials powered to assess long term outcome. |
Kruse | 17-Jun-2008 | kmg |
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