Targeted temperature management after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Certainties and uncertainties

Critical Care

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Wise, Matt P ^a   Horn, Janneke ^b   Åneman, Anders ^c   Nielsen, Niklas ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d HELSINGBORG HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COOLING; EDITORIAL; FEVER; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; NEUROPROTECTION; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVOR; TARGET TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT DURATION; UNCERTAINTY; WARMING; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARDS;

BODY TEMPERATURE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84905817637     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-014-0459-3     Document Type: Editorial

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