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I A Merkulova1, E A Avetisyan1, M A Terenicheva1
1National Medical Research Center of Cardiology, Ministry of Healthcare Russian Federation, Moscow.
Kardiologiia
|April 30, 2020
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The article aims to review the main trials, meta-analyses and guidelines regarding to various practical aspects and unsolved questions of an appliance of the therapeutic hypothermia in out-of-hospital and in-hospital cardiac arrest.
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