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A cardiac arrest: when recommended mild therapeutic hypothermia reveals the mechanism*

Guillaume Mazières1, Géraud Souteyrand, Romain Eschalier

  • 1Department of Cardiology and Intensive Cardiac Care, Hôpital Universitaire, Clermont-Ferrand, France. guillaume.maz@voila.fr

Critical Care Medicine
|November 15, 2011
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