Mild Therapeutic Hypothermia to Improve the Neurological Outcomes After Cardiac Arrest
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Landmark Article?:
Yes
Journal Name:
The New England Journal of Medicine
Year Published:
2002
Article Keywords:
cardiac arrest, therapeutic hypothermia, cooling, coma
Article Brief Summary:
The article that showed that therapeutic hypothermia improved neurologic outcomes and decreased the chance of death after ventricular fibrillation. Number needed to treat of only 6!