Minerva anestesiologica
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Minerva anestesiologica · Sep 2006
Case ReportsSuccessful cardiac and cerebral resuscitation with extracorporeal circulation and mild hypothermia.
Extracorporeal circulation could be effective for cardiac resuscitation in patients who do not respond to ''Advanced cardiac life support'' (ACLS), but cannot guarantee brain survival. A case of successful cardiac and cerebral resuscitation with extracorporeal circulation and mild hypothermia, in a 48 year-old man with cardiac arrest due to cardiac tamponade, is reported. The good long term neurologic outcome of the patient is also described.