Playing the Long Game: Therapeutic Hypothermia’s Impact on Quality-of-Life After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest*

Editor’s Choice Articles for January

“…The authors also provide readers with an Appendix of learning objectives for subspecialty education and training in PCCCM that is well worth studying closely. Second, a mixed-methods report using interviews of medical directors involved with the pediatric cardiac critical care consortium (PC 4 ) as well as other physicians in the field (5). Here, the objective was to identify and define the core training entrustable professional activities that could be applied to practice in PCCCM.…”

“…The primary outcome was HRQoL about 3 years after discharge, with a secondary outcome of mortality. This work is important, and our editorialists guide us through the implications of the findings, with much needed discussion and debate (4).…”

“…That said, I must draw your attention to only three Editor’s Choices articles: temperature management and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) 3-years after cardiac arrest (1); a PCCM Special Article on standardized training for physicians practicing pediatric cardiac critical care medicine (PCCCM) (2); and, the executive summary from the Transfusion and Anemia Expertise Initiative–Control/Avoidance of Bleeding (TAXI-CAB) collaborative reporting their consensus for plasma and platelet transfusion in critically ill children (3). All three of these open reports have additional supporting articles (4–12).…”