Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 213-217

  Sanders, Arthur B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Heart arrest; Hypothermia; Postresuscitation; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMATOSE PATIENT; HEART ARREST; HEART RHYTHM; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; METABOLIC DISORDER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; HEART ARREST; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748547691     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ccx.0000224864.93829.d4     Document Type: Review

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