• Dane Scantling, Emily Klonoski, and Dominic J Valentino.
• Dane Scantling is a fourth year medical student at The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Emily Klonoski is an internal medicine resident a St Luke's University Health Network in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Dominic J. Valentino III is the medical director of critical care at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pennsylvania.
• Am. J. Crit. Care. 2014 Jan 1;23(1):89-92.

AbstractTherapeutic hypothermia is an important and successful treatment that has been endorsed only in specific clinical settings of cardiac arrest. Inclusion criteria thus far have not embraced drug-induced cardiac arrest, but clinical evidence has been mounting that therapeutic hypothermia may be beneficial in such cases. A 59-year-old man who experienced a cocaine-induced cardiac arrest had a full neurological recovery after use of therapeutic hypothermia. The relevant pathophysiology of cocaine-induced cardiac arrest is reviewed, the mechanism and history of therapeutic hypothermia are discussed, and the clinical evidence recommending the use of therapeutic hypothermia in cocaine-induced cardiac arrest is reinforced.

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