Cor Vasa 2010, 52(11-12):721-725 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2010.178

Mild therapeutic hypothermia in pre-hospital care: 8 for versus 8 against?

Roman Škulec1,2,4,*, Anatolij Truhlář3,4, Jana Šeblová5, Jiří Knor5, Vladimír Černý4
1 Územní středisko záchranné služby Středočeského kraje, Beroun
2 Interní oddělení, Nemocnice Beroun, a. s., Beroun
3 Zdravotnická záchranná služba Královéhradeckého kraje, Hradec Králové
4 Klinika anesteziologie, resuscitace a intenzivní medicíny, Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Lékařská fakulta v Hradci Králové, Fakultní nemocnice Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové
5 Územní středisko záchranné služby Středočeského kraje, Kladno, Česká republika

Mild therapeutic hypothermia (TH) has been considered one of the approaches demonstrably improving the prognosis of successfully resuscitated cardiac arrest patients. The European and the Czech guidelines emphasize the requirement to start cooling as soon as possible. Therefore, a procedure of pre-hospital initiation of cooling has been evolving both in the world and in our country recently. In their review, the authors evaluate state of the art in the field of pre-hospital TH and assume that when the medical, technical and logistic requirements are met, adoption of the method may be beneficial.

Keywords: Pre-hospital therapeutic hypothermia; Cardiac arrest

Published: November 1, 2010  Show citation

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Škulec R, Truhlář A, Šeblová J, Knor J, Černý V. Mild therapeutic hypothermia in pre-hospital care: 8 for versus 8 against? Cor Vasa. 2010;52(11-12):721-725. doi: 10.33678/cor.2010.178.
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