A Case of Severe Accidental Hypothermia Successfully Treated with Cardiopulmonary Bypass
After missing for seven days, a 34-year-old female was found with a rectal temperature of 19.8oC. Instead of attempting aggressive rewarming in the emergency department she was directly transferred to the operating room for extracorporeal rewarming. She received cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) for 66 m...
Main Authors: | Erfun M. Hatam, Andrew Cameron, Dimitri Petsikas, David Messenger, Ian M. Ball |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2017-01-01
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Series: | Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine |
Online Access: | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jr5w8js |
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