No benefit to prehospital initiation of therapeutic hypothermia in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 355-364

  Hunter, Benton R ^a   O'Donnell, Daniel P ^a   Allgood, Kacy L ^b   Seupaul, Rawle A ^c  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RHYTHM; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; META ANALYSIS; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; ADULT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84898840325     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12342     Document Type: Article

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