Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest: Unintentional overcooling is common using ice packs and conventional cooling blankets

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 12 SUPPL., 2006, Pages

  Merchant, Raina M ^a   Abella, Benjamin S ^d   Peberdy, Mary Ann ^b   Soar, Jasmeet ^c   Ong, Marcus E H ^b   Schmidt, Gregory A ^a   Becker, Lance B ^a,e,f,g,h,i   Vanden Hoek, Terry L ^a,f,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTH BRISTOL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^f Cold Core Therapeutics LLC ^*

^g CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^h Basic Life Support Subcommittee ^*

ⁱ Research Working Group on Emergency Cardiovascular Care

Author keywords

Body temperature regulation; Cardiac arrest; Hypothermia; Resuscitation; Sudden cardiac death

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COLD TREATMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; THERMOREGULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; ICE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33751073390     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000246016.28679.36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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