Prehospital cooling in cardiac arrest - the next frontier?

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) in unconscious survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is now a well-documented part of post-resuscitation care. Implementation of TH into daily clinical practice has been far more successful in the Scandinavian countries t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Søreide Eldar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-10-01
Series:Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Online Access:http://www.sjtrem.com/content/17/1/54