Rewarming a patient with accidental hypothermia and cardiac arrest using thoracic lavage

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2165-2166

  Turtiainen, Johanna ^a   Halonen, Jari ^b   Syväoja, Sakari ^a   Hakala, Tapio ^a  

^a NORTH KARELIA CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; AMIODARONE; HOT WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACCIDENTAL HYPOTHERMIA; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; CORE TEMPERATURE; DEFIBRILLATOR; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; EMERGENCY SURGERY; HEART ARREST; HEART MASSAGE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG LAVAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THORACOTOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; WARMING;

ACCIDENTS; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REWARMING; THERAPEUTIC IRRIGATION; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 84901713595     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2013.08.028     Document Type: Article

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