Therapeutic Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   • Kelly Sawyer

   Pages 1-14

3. Pre-hospital Therapeutic Hypothermia

   • Sarah K. Wallace, Benjamin S. Abella

   Pages 15-24

4. Molecular Mechanism of Reperfusion Injury

   • Shoji Yokobori, M. Ross Bullock, W. Dalton Dietrich

   Pages 25-41

5. Cardiac Arrest: Who Should Be Cooled?

   • Sanjeev U. Nair, Justin B. Lundbye

   Pages 43-50

6. Hypothermia: How to Cool

   • Matthew W. Parker, Justin B. Lundbye

   Pages 51-60

7. How to Implement Therapeutic Hypothermia in the Hospital

   • Lisa Hawksworth

   Pages 61-68

8. Post-Cardiac Arrest: How to Develop and Implement a Standard Therapeutic Hypothermia Protocol?

   • Sanjeev U. Nair, Xia Luo, Justin B. Lundbye

   Pages 69-77

9. Complications of Therapeutic Hypothermia Following Cardiac Arrest

   • Edgar Argulian, Renata Barbosa, Janet Shapiro, Eyal Herzog

   Pages 79-85

10. Pharmacology and Therapeutic Hypothermia

    • William L. Baker

    Pages 87-99

11. Determination of Neurological Prognosis

    • Cara Klajbor, Erica Schuyler

    Pages 101-106

12. Therapeutic Hypothermia as a Treatment of Myocardial Infarction and Cardiogenic Shock

    • David Erlinge

    Pages 107-117

13. Back Matter

    Pages 119-122

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Therapeutic hypothermia has emerged as a very important treatment option for patients with cardiac arrest as it provides significant protection from developing neurologic injury once the patient has been successfully resuscitated. Studies have demonstrated over 15% absolute risk reduction in death and neurologic injury using this therapy. Although hospitals and medical centers have become familiar with this important intervention it still remains greatly under utilized due to an experience and lack of resources to safely and effectively deploy such a program. The objective of this book is to educate and familiarize both providers and institutions as to how to develop and deploy and provide therapeutic hypothermia to their patients. The current knowledge for this is provided by speakers and national experts and also by literature review. There are several courses being provided on this as well throughout the US. These are good venues for people to come and see and get hands on experience, but there still needs to be a concrete book with references on how to go about getting this program started.

• Cardiac surgery
• Cardiology
• Critical Care medicine
• Emergency medicine

From the reviews:

“This textbook is a good introductory discussion of a how to manual for clinical hypothermia proceeding cardiac arrest. … This is essential reading for all doctors, neurosurgeons, emergency management practitioners, and students interested in hypothermia.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, February, 2014)

• , School of Medicine, University of Connecticut, Hartford, USA

  Justin B. Lundbye

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