Is extracorporeal rewarming indicated in avalanche victims with unwitnessed hypothermic cardiorespiratory arrest?

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 500-503

  Mair, Peter ^a   Brugger, Hermann ^b   Mair, Birgit ^a   Moroder, Luca ^a   Ruttmann, Elfriede ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^c Universitatsklinik fur Chirurgie Innsbruck   (Austria)

Author keywords

avalanche; cardiac arrest; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; extracorporeal rewarming; hypothermia; outcome

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVALANCHE VICTIM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORE TEMPERATURE; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; EXTRACORPOREAL REWARMING; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; VICTIM; VITAL SIGN; WARMING; AVALANCHE; DISASTER VICTIM; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

SNOW;

AVALANCHES; DISASTER VICTIMS; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REWARMING; SNOW;

EID: 84919601232     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: 15578682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ham.2014.1066     Document Type: Article

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