title: Successful resuscitation of an elderly man with deep accidental hypothermia using portable extracorporeal circulation in the emergency department: a case report.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Deep accidental hypothermia (body temperature below 28 degrees C) is rare and has a high mortality rate. Successful resuscitation usually occurs in the young, but a prompt intervention using a portable extracorporeal cardiopulmonary circulation device can also provide a good outcome for older persons.
  
  
  METHODS
  We report the successful resuscitation of an 82-year-old male from deep accidental hypothermia using portable extracorporeal circulation in the emergency department.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This successful resuscitation of an 82-year-old patient demonstrates that a prompt intervention by a medical team that trains together, using a mobile cardiopulmonary bypass device via a percutaneous approach, can potentially provide good outcomes for all victims of deep accidental hypothermia, both in the operating suites and the emergency department.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, University of Toledo, College of Medicine, Toledo, OH, USA. simone.cooper@utoledo.edu
authors.forename: Simone S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.forename: Thomas J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Papadimos
authors.forename: Jeffery A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: Gregory J
authors.initials: GJ
authors.lastname: Cerilli
authors.forename: Shuab
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Omer
authors.forename: Anthony L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Braida
authors.forename: Ali M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Hassan