Therapeutic hypothermia in comatose patients after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Anaesthesia

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-19

  Hay, A W ^a   Swann, D G ^a   Bell, K ^b   Walsh, T S ^a   Cook, B ^a  

^a ROYAL INFIRMARY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMATOSE PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMA; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36849050742     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: 13652044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2007.05262.x     Document Type: Article

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