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Pre-hospital cooling of patients following cardiac arrest is effective using even low volumes of cold saline

INTRODUCTION: Pre-hospital induction of therapeutic mild hypothermia (TH) may reduce post-cardiac arrest brain injury in patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Most often, it is induced by a rapid intravenous administration of as much as 30 ml/kg of cold crystalloids. We decided...

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Autores principales: Škulec, Roman, Truhlář, Anatolij, Šeblová, Jana, Dostál, Pavel, Černý, Vladimír
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3219975/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21176218
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc9386