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Comment
. 2018 Oct;10(10):E761-E763.
doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.09.98.

How long should comatose patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest be cooled?

Hans Kirkegaard  1 , Fabio Silvio Taccone  2 , Markus B Skrifvars  3 , Eldar Søreide  4
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How long should comatose patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest be cooled?

Hans Kirkegaard et al. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Oct.
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Conflicts of Interest: Dr. FS Taccone receives lecture fees from Bard. Dr MB Skrifvars has received research funding from GE Healthcare and lecture fees from Covidien, Orion Pharma, Bard, and Axis Shield Diagnostics. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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