Dear all,

• We are almost at 1500 patients!
  This is a fantastic achievement! Given the current projections, we will finish including patients before mid-year of 2026. As this study will be twice the size of most previous studies on post-cardiac arrest care, this is nothing short of a fantastic achievement. For this to happen, we will need to be accurate with the study population and aim to include all patients who do not have exclusion criteria.
   
• Interim analysis – deadline April 8th!
  The interim analysis is an extremely important part of this trial, and we need to provide complete data to the DSMB. Please make sure that data on all patients enrolled before February 9th 2025, including 30-day mortality, is collected. The deadline for this data to be entered into the eCRF is April 8th!
   
• eCRF update
  An eCRF update was released earlier today. The vital status form can now be completed in all patients, lactate limits have been increased, and the 12 month follow-up forms are available. We have unfortunately noticed some minor bugs after the release, and these will soon be solved. In the meantime, please ignore new alerts in the discharge form.
   
• STEPCARE meeting in Helsinki – Please register before April 1st!
  Welcome to register for STEPCARE 2025, June 16-17 in Helsinki. STEPCARE will cover 2 hotel nights and travel arrangements in economy class for 2 persons from each active site in Europe (investigators or research staff). 2 extra staff per site can register for the conference for free, but no travel or hotel. Any additional staff pay the full fee. 
  
  Please register for the STEPCARE investigator meeting via this link:
   https://mkon.nu/stepcare_2025/stepcare_registration_form
  
  To make the travel arrangements, you can contact the travel agency Koch & Ljungberg by e-mail, bokning@koch-ljungberg.se, use booking code 2517. If you have any questions, please contact Jenny Johansson at MKON, jenny@mkon.se. 
  
  Please note that we have pre-booked rooms that need to be confirmed before April 1st 2025; therefore, if you know you are going to attend, please register ASAP!