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Tintinalli's Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide, 7e
| Section 3. Resuscitation > |
Chapter 18. Cerebral Resuscitation and Therapeutic Hypothermia
Sections: History and Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Postresuscitation Syndrome, Therapeutic Hypothermia, Practice Guidelines and Society Position Statements, Special Populations, Acknowledgments, References.
Topics Discussed: hypothermia, induced; reperfusion therapy.
Excerpt:"In addition to developing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Dr. Peter
Safar introduced the concept of cardiopulmonary cerebral resuscitation
to save lives and promote research that focused on therapies to
treat brains that "were too good to die."1 The
concept of brain-directed therapy has since expanded to include
all causes of acute brain injury and led to the field of reanimatology,
commonly referred to as cerebral resuscitation...."
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