Clinical Trial of Induced Hypothermia in Comatose Survivors of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Annals of Emergency MedicinePublished 1 August 1997
Stephen Bernard, Bruce M Jones, Malcolm Horne
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Compared with historical normothermic controls, outcome was significantly improved and there was no increase in complications when moderate hypothermia was induced in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and maintained for 12 hours.
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Compared with historical normothermic controls, outcome was significantly improved and there was no increase in complications when moderate hypothermia was induced in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and maintained for 12 hours. Larger, prospective, randomized, controlled studies of induced moderate hypothermia in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are warranted.
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