Hypothermia Only Therapy Proven to Improve Survival/Outcomes After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
According to the review article on “The Use of Hypothermia Therapy in Cardiac Arrest Survivors,” therapeutic hypothermia appears to reduce the risk of brain injury in the approximately 400,000 people who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the U.S. each year.
The authors, Sanjeev Nair and Justin Lundbye, Hartford Hospital (CT) and University of Connecticut School of Medicine, in Farmington, discuss when therapeutic hypothermia should and should not be used, various methods of reducing body temperature, and the different phases of hypothermia.
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