Accidental Hypothermia
- 15 November 2012
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 367 (20), 1930-1938
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmra1114208
Abstract
Advances in rewarming have improved the prognosis for patients with hypothermia, especially those with cardiac arrest treated with extracorporeal rewarming. This review covers prehospital care, transport, resuscitation fluids, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation.Keywords
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