Implementation of pre-hospital therapeutic hypothermia in post-cardiac arrest patients in the Czech Republic

Abstract

In the Czech Republic, post-cardiac arrest therapeutic hypothermia is now commonly used in hospitals. Indeed, the physician-staffed emergency medical service system, and a network of percutaneous coronary intervention centres offer a high-level post-cardiac arrest care.

This also now includes the pre-hospital initiation of therapeutic hypothermia.

Keywords

• implementation
• pre-hospital
• hypothermia
• post-cardiac arrest