title: Successful CPR in a severely hypothermic patient using continuous thoracostomy lavage.
abstract: Severe hypothermia with cardiopulmonary arrest often requires prolonged resuscitation while rewarming procedures are implemented. A 63-year-old male in cardiopulmonary arrest with a core body temperature of 23.7 C was resuscitated successfully after core rewarming by means of a two-chest-tube continuous thoracostomy lavage procedure. This lavage procedure resulted in effective and rapid rewarming after other conventional rewarming methods had failed.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark 07103.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Iversen
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Atkin
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Jaker
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Quadrel
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Tortella
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Odom
mesh_terms: D001831:Body Temperature; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D006358:Hot Temperature / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000379:methods*; D012965:Sodium Chloride / Q000627:therapeutic use; D007507:Therapeutic Irrigation / Q000379:methods*; D013907:Thoracostomy
chemical_list: D012965:Sodium Chloride