Therapeutic Hypothermia

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tisherman, Samuel A. (Editor), Sterz, Fritz (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: Molecular and Cellular Biology of Critical Care Medicine ; 4
• Subjects: Medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.

The use of hypothermia for a variety of therapeutic purposes has a long and erratic history. Hypothermia was used for protection and preservation of the heart and entire organism during planned operative ischemia. Attempts were also made to use hypothermia for resuscitation from cardiac arrest and f...