Therapeutic hypothermia for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: An analysis comparing cooled and not cooled groups at a Canadian center | Zendy

DAlex MacLean | Zendy; RobertS Stevenson | Zendy; Iqbal Bata | Zendy; RobertS Green | Zendy

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Therapeutic hypothermia for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: An analysis comparing cooled and not cooled groups at a Canadian center

Author(s) -

DAlex MacLean,

RobertS Stevenson,

Iqbal Bata,

RobertS Green

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

journal of emergencies trauma and shock

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313

H-Index - 29

eISSN - 0974-519X

pISSN - 0974-2700

DOI - 10.4103/0974-2700.102403

Subject(s) - medicine , odds ratio , hypothermia , intensive care unit , retrospective cohort study , single center , mortality rate , emergency medicine , pediatrics

Out of hospital cardiac arrest is a devastating event and is associated with poor outcomes; however, therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is a novel treatment which may improve neurological outcome and decrease mortality. Despite this, TH is not uniformly implemented across Coronary Care and Intensive Care Units in Canada.

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