title: Therapeutic hypothermia post out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - more questions than answers?
abstract: Nearly a decade since the introduction of therapeutic hypothermia to the ICU for cooling out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients, key questions remain unanswered: when should cooling be initiated, how rapidly should the patient be cooled and using which device? The Time to Target Temperature study group provides important baseline data on the striking direct relationship between body temperature and survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Department, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK. richardlyon@doctors.org.uk
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lyon
mesh_terms: D001831:Body Temperature; D005260:Female; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007036:Hypothermia, Induced; D008297:Male