Winning the cold war: Inroads into implementation of mild hypothermia after cardiac arrest in adults from the European Resuscitation Council Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest Registry Study Group

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1199-1202

  Fink, Ericka L ^a   Callaway, Clifton W ^a   Tisherman, Samuel A ^a   Kochanek, Patrick M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Cooling; Hypothermia; Resuscitation; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL STUDY; COOLING; DEVICE; DISEASE REGISTRY; EDITORIAL; EUROPE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; THERAPY EFFECT;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS;

EID: 34247116545     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000259495.93720.D7     Document Type: Editorial

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