Outcome after severe accidental hypothermia in the French Alps: A 10-year review

Resuscitation

Volumn 93, Issue , 2015, Pages 118-123

  Debaty, Guillaume ^a,b   Moustapha, Ibrahim ^b   Bouzat, Pierre ^b,c,d   Maignan, Maxime ^a,b   Blancher, Marc ^b   Rallo, Amandine ^b   Brun, Julien ^b   Chavanon, Olivier ^b,e   Danel, Vincent ^b   Carpentier, Françoise ^b   Payen, Jean François ^b,c,d   Briot, Raphaël ^a,b  

^a LABORATOIRE TIMC IMAG   (France)

^b GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c GRENOBLE INSTITUT DES NEUROSCIENCES   (France)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e Domaine de la Merci   (France)

Author keywords

Accidental hypothermia; Cardiac arrest; Extracorporeal rewarming; Rescue collapse

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; LACTIC ACID; POTASSIUM; PROTHROMBIN; SODIUM;

ACCIDENTAL HYPOTHERMIA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVALANCHE; CANNULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLD; COLLAPSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEEP HYPOTHERMIC CIRCULATORY ARREST; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EXTRACORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL ISCHEMIA; FRANCE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMMERSION; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; ISCHEMIA; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LIFE SUPPORT EQUIPMENT; LUNG INFECTION; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERITONEAL DIALYSIS; PH; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIMPLIFIED ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY SCORE; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SURVIVOR; THERMAL REGULATING SYSTEM; UNWITNESSED CARDIAC ARREST; WARMING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPLICATION; ENVIRONMENT; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HYPOTHERMIA; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SHOCK; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AVALANCHES; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COLD TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENT; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEART ARREST; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REWARMING; SHOCK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84937420763     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.06.013     Document Type: Article

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