Pre-hospital hypothermia hurt, not helped after cardiac arrest
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Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest was almost immediately accepted as standard care in 2002 when two smallish, unblinded randomized trials (n=77 and n=273) showed a significant benefit from hypothermia after out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest. Hospitals and their cardiac care units quickly adopted resource-intensive protocols to manage patients' special needs while being cooled to an icy 33° Celsius.
Pre-hospital hypothermia hurt, not helped after cardiac arrest
Pre-hospital hypothermia hurt, not helped…
Pre-hospital hypothermia hurt, not helped after cardiac arrest
Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest was almost immediately accepted as standard care in 2002 when two smallish, unblinded randomized trials (n=77 and n=273) showed a significant benefit from hypothermia after out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest. Hospitals and their cardiac care units quickly adopted resource-intensive protocols to manage patients' special needs while being cooled to an icy 33° Celsius.
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