Resuscitation and intensive care monitoring following immersion hypothermia.
Neurologic recovery occurred in a 3-year-old patient following immersion hypothermia and prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Recognition of hypothermia in the near-drowning victim is imperative for appropriate resuscitative efforts. Intensive care monitoring (intracranial pressure, pulmonary artery catheterization) facilitates patient management and optimum neurologic recovery.
D002675:Child, Preschool; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007035:Hypothermia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D007101:Immersion; D008297:Male; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000379:methods*