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Cindy H Hsu1, Bryce E Haac, Mack Drake

  • 1From the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland (C.H.H., B.E.H., T.M.S., D.M.S.); University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan (C.H.H., I.N.C.); University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky (M.D., A.C.B.); Los Angeles County/University of Southern California Medical Center, Los Angeles, California (A.A., K.I.); Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon (H.E.H., C.E.); University of California Davis Medical Center, Davis, California (J.G., E.M.T.); University of Washington/Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington (N.J.J., D.C.); Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee (M.F.M., M.B.P.); Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California (K.R.O., C.C.); WakeMed Health & Hospitals, Raleigh, North Carolina (P.O.U., M.F.); Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania (J.L.W., K.A.Y.); Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin (D.C.C., D.J.G.); University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (A.W., C.C.); University of Colorado Hospital, Aurora, Colorado (S.M.P., M.G.); Brigham Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (I.P.A., R.R.S.); San Francisco General Hospital/University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California (D.Y.M., B.D.); Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California (D.Y.K., L.S.).

The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
|April 21, 2018
PubMed
Summary

Suicidal hanging patients with cardiac arrest (CA) have worse outcomes. Targeted temperature management (TTM) in CA patients showed worse unadjusted survival, but subgroup analysis revealed no significant difference.

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