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Esophageal Heat Transfer for Patient Temperature Control and Targeted Temperature Management
Published on: November 21, 2017
Targeted temperature management after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in three young patients
Amina Godinjak1, Amer Iglica2, Adis Kukuljac3
1Medical Intensive Care Unit, Clinical Center University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. aminagodinjak@gmail.com.
Objective:
We present the use of targeted temperature management in a tertiary-level intensive care unit, in three patients who experienced an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Case Report:
Three young patients experienced an out-of-hospital non-coronary cardiac arrest. The causes of the cardiac arrest were: Wolf-Parkinson-White syndrome, drug overdose and long-QT syndrome. All patients were resuscitated according to the advanced cardiac life support guidelines, and treated with targeted temperature management, with a target temperature of 33°C for 24 hours. After completion of targeted temperature management, all the patients regained full consciousness and were discharged from hospital without any neurological sequelae.
Conclusion:
Targeted temperature management may improve survival and neurological outcome in patients after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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