Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report in the June issue of iCritical Care Medicine/i that the brain-preserving cooling treatment known as therapeutic hypothermia is rarely being used in patients who suffer cardiac arrest while in the hospital, despite its proven potential to improve survival and neurological function. The authors suggest that scarce data about in-hospital cardiac arrest patients and guidelines that only ...Monday, 24 June 2013
Potentially Life-saving Cooling Treatment Rarely Used for In-hospital Cardiac Arrests: Researchers
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report in the June issue of iCritical Care Medicine/i that the brain-preserving cooling treatment known as therapeutic hypothermia is rarely being used in patients who suffer cardiac arrest while in the hospital, despite its proven potential to improve survival and neurological function. The authors suggest that scarce data about in-hospital cardiac arrest patients and guidelines that only ...
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