Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2010
Abstract
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.