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Routine active cooling following cardiac arrest

29/06/202128/06/2021 by Bob Dunn

The Post arrest care page has been updated to reflect the lack of benefit from routine cooling following cardiac arrest.
Dankiewicz, J, Cronberg, T, Lilja, G, et al. Hypothermia versus Normothermia after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. New England Journal of Medicine 2021;384(24):2283-94.

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