Cooling techniques for targeted temperature management post-cardiac arrest

Charudatt Vaity; Nawaf Al-Subaie; Maurizio Cecconi

doi:10.1186/s13054-015-0804-1

Cooling techniques for targeted temperature management post-cardiac arrest

Crit Care. 2015 Mar 16;19(1):103. doi: 10.1186/s13054-015-0804-1.

Authors

Charudatt Vaity¹, Nawaf Al-Subaie², Maurizio Cecconi³

Affiliations

¹ St George's Hospital, Intensive Care Unit, London, UK. charudatt.vaity@gmail.com.
² St George's Hospital, Intensive Care Unit, London, UK. nalsubaie@gmail.com.
³ St George's Hospital, Intensive Care Unit, London, UK. m.cecconi@nhs.net.

Abstract

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2015 and co-published as a series in Critical Care. Other articles in the series can be found online at http://ccforum.com/series/annualupdate2015. Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Body Temperature
Critical Care
Heart Arrest / physiopathology
Heart Arrest / therapy*
Humans
Hypothermia, Induced / methods*
Intensive Care Units