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In 2002, two large, prospective trials demonstrated that mild hypothermia after resuscitation from cardiac arrest and maintained for 12 to 24 hours improved survival and neurologic outcome in patients suffering from VF/VT arrest. Additional studies have suggested that therapeutic hypothermia may be beneficial following respiratory arrest, electrical mechanical dissociation, and asystole, provided that it is initiated within 25 minutes.
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Tintinalli’s Emergency Medicine. Chapter 18
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Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest Study Group Mild therapeutic hypothermia to improve the neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest. N. Engl. J. Med.: 2002, 346(8);549-56
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Stephen A Bernard, Timothy W Gray, Michael D Buist, Bruce M Jones, William Silvester, Geoff Gutteridge, Karen Smith Treatment of comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with induced hypothermia. N. Engl. J. Med.: 2002, 346(8);557-63
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Mauro Oddo, Vincent Ribordy, François Feihl, Andrea O Rossetti, Marie-Denise Schaller, René Chioléro, Lucas Liaudet Early predictors of outcome in comatose survivors of ventricular fibrillation and non-ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest treated with hypothermia: a prospective study. Crit. Care Med.: 2008, 36(8);2296-301