Deep accidental hypothermia accompanied with cardiac arrest after alcohol and drug poisoning treated with extracorporeal life support

Deep accidental hypothermia is an unusual clinical entity in developed countries. We report a case of a 30 year old male Caucasian patient with accidental severe hypothermia who was transferred to the emergency department of our hospital after prolonged exposure in the urban city's night enviro...

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Main Authors: Konstantinos Grapatsas, Vasileios Leivaditis, Ioannis Panagiotopoulos, Konstantinos Spiliotopoulos, Efstratios Koletsis, Manfred Dahm, Christoforos Kosmidis, Stella Laskou, Paul Zarogoulidis, Athanasios Katsaounis, Efstathios Pavlidis, Dimitrios Giannakidis, Charilaos Koulouris, Stylianos Mantalovas, Fotis Konstantinou, Aikaterini Amaniti, Alexandru Munteanu, Valeriou Surlin, Konstantinos Sapalidis, Isaak Kesisoglou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-01-01
Series:Respiratory Medicine Case Reports
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213007118301527