Regional system to cool cardiac arrest patients improves outcomes, study finds
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 01:30
in Health & Medicine
A regional network of EMS departments and hospitals used a coordinated plan to cool, then gradually re-warm people who had been resuscitated after a cardiac arrest. This cooling treatment, called therapeutic hypothermia, helped increase the portion of survivors with good brain function, even when they were transferred to the central hospital for care, according to a new study.