Therapeutic Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest Clinical Application and Management /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lundbye, Justin B. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Cardiology.; Cardiac surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Emergency Medicine.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Cardiac Surgery.

Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) has emerged as an important treatment option for patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest as it provides significant protection from developing neurologic injury.  Although hospitals and medical centres have become familiar with this intervention, it still remains great...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Pre-hospital therapeutic hypothermia.-3. Molecular Mechanism of Reperfusion Injury
• 4. Cardiac Arrest: Who Should Be Cooled?
• 5. Hypothermia: How to Cool
• 6. How to Implement Therapeutic Hypothermia in the Hospital
• 7. Post-Cardiac Arrest: How to Develop and Implement a Standard Therapeutic Hypothermia Protocol?
• 8. Complications of Therapeutic Hypothermia Following Cardiac Arrest
• 9. Pharmacology & Therapeutic Hypothermia
• 10. Determination of Neurological Prognosis
• 11. Therapeutic hypothermia as a treatment of myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock.