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. 2009 Oct 12:17:54.
doi: 10.1186/1757-7241-17-54.

Prehospital cooling in cardiac arrest--the next frontier?

Eldar Søreide  1
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Prehospital cooling in cardiac arrest--the next frontier?

Eldar Søreide. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. .

Abstract

Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) in unconscious survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is now a well-documented part of post-resuscitation care. Implementation of TH into daily clinical practice has been far more successful in the Scandinavian countries than in the rest of the world. Still, many questions remain. One of them is whether prehospital cooling will result in better outcomes.

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The ERC 2005 Chain of Survival. From: Jerry Nolan, Jasmeet Soar, and Harald Eikeland. Resuscitation 2006, 71, 270--271
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