Treatment of comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with induced hypothermia

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 346, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 557-563

  Bernard, Stephen A ^a,b,c   Gray, Timothy W ^d   Buist, Michael D ^a,b   Jones, Bruce M ^b   Silvester, William ^e   Gutteridge, Geoff ^e   Smith, Karen ^f  

^a DANDENONG HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Knox Private Hospital   (Australia)

^c Metropolitan Ambulance Service   (Australia)

^d MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^e AUSTIN HEALTH   (Australia)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COMA; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPERFUSION INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0037148929     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa003289     Document Type: Article

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