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Rewarming for accidental hypothermia in an urban medical center using extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

BACKGROUND: Accidental hypothermia complicated by cardiac arrest carries a high mortality rate in urban areas. For moderate hypothermia cases conventional rewarming methods are usually adequate, however in severe cases extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is known to provide the most efficient...

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Autores principales: Morley, David, Yamane, Kentaro, O’Malley, Rika, Cavarocchi, Nicholas C., Hirose, Hitoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Scientific Literature, Inc. 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614333/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23569552
http://dx.doi.org/10.12659/AJCR.883728