Successful use of therapeutic hypothermia in an opiate induced out-of-hospital cardiac arrest complicated by severe hypoglycaemia and amphetamine intoxication: a case report

The survival to discharge rate after unwitnessed, non-cardiac out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is dismal. We report the successful use of therapeutic hypothermia in a 26-year old woman with OHCA due to intentional poisoning with heroin, amphetamine and insulin. The cardiac arrest was not witnes...

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Autores principales: Busch, Michael, Søreide, Eldar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20113472
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-18-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2827361/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20113472
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-18-4

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