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Therapeutic hypothermia and neurological outcome after cardiac arrest
Author(s) -
Milovan Petrović,
Gordana Panić,
Aleksandra Jovelic,
Tibor Čanji,
Ilija Srdanović,
Tanja Popov,
Miodrag Golubović
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
vojnosanitetski pregled
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 2406-0720
pISSN - 0042-8450
DOI - 10.2298/vsp1106495p
Subject(s) - medicine , hypothermia , return of spontaneous circulation , coma (optics) , anesthesia , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , resuscitation , glasgow coma scale , ischemia , surgery , cardiology , physics , optics
The most important clinically relevant cause of global cerebral ischemia is cardiac arrest. Clinical studies showed a marked neuroprotective effect of mild hypothermia in resuscitation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of mild hypothermia on neurological outcome and survival of the patients in coma, after cardiac arrest and return of spontaneous circulation.

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