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Stuart McGrane1, Jennifer Maziad, James L Netterville
1Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 526 MAB, 1211 21st Ave. South, Nashville, TN 37212, USA. stuart.mcgrane@vanderbilt.edu
Anesthesia and Analgesia
|May 16, 2012
Summary
Therapeutic hypothermia may improve outcomes for patients experiencing cardiac arrest due to severe bleeding. This case study shows successful recovery after internal carotid artery rupture, highlighting hypothermia
Area of Science:
- Critical Care Medicine
- Neurology
- Cardiology
Background:
- Therapeutic hypothermia is established for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
- Its use is expanding to in-hospital cardiac arrest.
- The efficacy of hypothermia following hemorrhagic cardiac arrest remains unclear.
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