PMID: 29470906Jul 1, 2016Paper

PROLONGED CARDIO-PULMONARY RESUSCITATION OF THE PATIENT WITH SEVERE ACCIDENTAL HYPOTHERMIA (clinical case)

Anesteziologiia i reanimatologiia
K S Nurgalieva, A L Mel'nikov

Abstract

Cooling of the human body leads to progressive depression of cardiac activity, until it stops. In the presented clinical case is described of prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) of a patient with accidental deep hypothermia. Also discuss the characteristics of CPR and the possible modification ofthe CPR algorithm in patients with severe hypothermia.

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