Sudden cardiac arrest survivors suffer from ischaemic brain injury that may lead to poor neurological outcome and death. The injury during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and successfully restored spontaneous circulation (ROSC) is described as a global ischaemia-reperfusion injury. The reperfusion injury that occurs is associated with damaging biochemical reactions, which are suppressed by lowering body temperature (induced hypothermia). Guidelines now endorse induced hypothermia (32-34℃) as a post-resuscitation treatment to improve neurological outcomes following cardiac arrest. Relevant studies have proved hypothermia (32-34℃) to be safe, with few complications and improved survival rate, as recommended by the American Heart Association. In this article, physiology and mechanism of hypothermia, evidence-based researches, intervention and complication of hypothermia, and care of hypothermia in different periods are described.