Mild therapeutic hypothermia improves outcomes compared with normothermia in cardiac-arrest patients-a retrospective chart review

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2315-2319

  Hörburger, David ^a   Testori, Christoph ^a   Sterz, Fritz ^a   Herkner, Harald ^a   Krizanac, Danica ^a   Uray, Thomas ^a   Schober, Andreas ^a   Stöckl, Mathias ^a   Stratil, Peter ^a   Weiser, Christoph ^a   Wallmüller, Christian ^a   Holzer, Michael ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

cardiopulmonary resuscitation; heart arrest; hypothermia; morbidity; mortality; survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84864286601     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31825333cf     Document Type: Review

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