To participate in the Registry each unit must sign up to become a member through the on-line registration form.  

The Registry is primarily designed to collect clinical data from patients treated with induced hypothermia after cardiac arrest to evaluate treatment efficacy, safety and the use of ICU resources. However, limited clinical data will also be collected from cardiac arrest patients admitted to the ICU, to whom induced hypothermia has not been initiated. We encourage all reporting units to register these “normothermia-treated” patients as well, since this will provide a better view of the actual use of induced hypothermia in clinical practice.

All data from registered patients must be submitted without personal identification. Each reporting unit will receive a personal unit-number that, through linkage to a serial number, will provide a unique identification number to each registered patient. A local database, with personal identification, should be kept at each reporting unit to enable future follow-up. The local database is the property of each reporting unit, involving the same confidentiality that applies to other medical records.  

The information extracted from and compiled using the local database is controlled entirely by the local reporting unit. Participation in regional/national/international studies not linked to NHN is also decided by the local reporting unit.  

The reporting units together form the Northern Hypothermia Network (NHN). Future publications regarding the use of hypothermia and outcome data from the Registry will be published in the name of the Registry with participating units mentioned by name. All units contributing to the Registry may analyse and publish common data from the Registry, after approval from the Steering Group. 

Questions about the Registry, please contact niklas.nielsen@helsingborgslasarett.se or niklas.nielsen@telia.com

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