Medical Hypothermia Citations

1. Wake County EMS Database

2.Edgren, E et al Assessment of neurological prognosis of comatose survivors of cardiac arrest. Lancet 1994; 343:1055-59.

3.Myerburg, R et al. Clinical, electrophysiologic and hemodynamic profile of patients resuscitated from prehospital cardiac arrest. Am J Med. 1980; 68:568-76.

4.Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest (HACA) Study Group. Mild therapeutic hypothermia to improve the neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest. N Engl J Med. 2002; 346:549-56.

5.Bernard, SA et al. Treatment of comatose survivors of out of hospital cardiac arrest with induced hypothermia. N Engl J Med. 2002; 346:557-63.

6.Yanagawa, Y, et al. Preliminary clinical outcome study of mild resuscitative hypothermia after out of hospital cardiopulmonary arrest. Resuscitation 1998; 36:61-66.

7.Bernard, SA, et al. Clinical trial of induced hypothermia in comatose survivors of out of hospital cardiac arrest. Ann Emerg Med. 1997;30:146-53.

8.Persse, DE et al. Managing the post-resuscitation patient in the field. PEC 2002;6:114-22.

9.Part 7.5: Postresuscitation Support. Circulation 2005;112:84-88.

10.Kollmar, R. Early effects of acid-base management during hypothermia on cerebral infarct volume, edema, and cerebral blood flow in acure focal cerebral ischemia in rats. Anesthesiology 2002;97:868-74.

11.Persse, D. Et al. Managing the post resuscitation patient in the field. PEC 2002;6:114-122

12.Leonov Y, et al. Hypertension with hemodilution prevents multifocal cerebral hypoperfusion after cardiac arrest in dogs. Stroke. 1992;23:45-53.

13.Sterz F, et al. Hypertension with or without hemodilution after cardiac arrest in dogs. Stroke. 1990;21:1178-84.

14.Kuboyama K, et al. Delay in cooling negates beneficial effects of mild resuscitative hypothermia after cardiac arrest in dogs. Crit Care Med. 1993;21:1348-58.

15.Markarian GZ, et al. Mild hypothermia:therapeutic window after experimental cerebral ischemia. Neurosurgery 1996, 38:542-551.

16.Nolan, JP. Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest: An advisory statement by the advanced life support task force of the international liaison committee on resuscitation. Circulation 2003;108:118-121.

17.Danzl DF. Accidental hypothermia. N Engl J Med. 1994;331:1756-60.

18.Patt, A. Effect of hypothermia induced coagulopathies in trauma. Surg Lcin North Am. 1988;68:775-85.

19.Roher MJ. Effect of hypothermia on the coagulation cascade. Crit Care Med. 1992; 20: 1402-05.

20.Valerie CR. Hypothermia induced platelet dysfunction Ann Surg. 1987;205:175-81.

21.Holzer M. Hypothermia for neuroprotection after cardiac arrest: Systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis. Crit Care Med 2005; 33:414-18.

22.A randomized clinical study of cardiopulmonary-cerebral resuscitation: design, methods, and patient characteristics. Brain resuscitation clinical trial I study group. Am J EMerg Med 1986 Jan;4(1):72-86.