MILD THERAPEUTIC HYPOTHERMIA - Emergency Medicine

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So who should get cooled?• Greater than 18 years of age• Non-traumatic cardiac arrest due toventricular fibrillation or pulselessventricular tachycardia• return of spontaneous circulationwithout full neurological recovery(i.e. comatose)
Who should not get cooled?• Pregnancy• Severe cardiogenic shock• Primary coagulopathies• DNR status• Coma unrelated to cardiac arrest• Received CPR greater than 45 minutes• Suffered a cardiac arrest that is not due to primaryVF or Vtach (e.g. PEA, asystole, non-cardiac, etc)
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