Prehospital cooling in cardiac arrest - the next frontier?

Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) in unconscious survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is now a well-documented part of post-resuscitation care. Implementation of TH into daily clinical practice has been far more successful in the Scandinavian countries than in the rest of the world. Still,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Søreide, Eldar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
Materias:
Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2767341/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19821973
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-17-54
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Sumario:Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) in unconscious survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is now a well-documented part of post-resuscitation care. Implementation of TH into daily clinical practice has been far more successful in the Scandinavian countries than in the rest of the world. Still, many questions remain. One of them is whether prehospital cooling will result in better outcomes.

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