'Cooling and cathing' the post-resuscitated

Crit Care. 2011 Aug 8;15(4):178. doi: 10.1186/cc10299.

Abstract

Cronier and co-workers provide additional evidence that routine use of mild therapeutic hypothermia combined with emergent coronary angiography and percutaneous intervention results in excellent survival with intact neurological function for post-resuscitation patients with ventricular fibrillation.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / methods*
  • Coronary Angiography / methods*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Hypothermia, Induced / methods*
  • Male
  • Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest / therapy*
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / complications*