• Scand J Trauma Resus · Jan 2009

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    Prehospital cooling in cardiac arrest--the next frontier?

    • Eldar Søreide.
    • Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway. soed@sus.no
    • Scand J Trauma Resus. 2009 Jan 1;17:54.

    AbstractTherapeutic 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 than in the rest of the world. Still, many questions remain. One of them is whether prehospital cooling will result in better outcomes.

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