Research Article: Hypothermia Improves Defibrillation Success and Resuscitation Outcomes From Ventricular Fibrillation
Abstract
Background Induced hypothermia is recommended to improve neurological outcomes in unconscious survivors of out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation (VF) cardiac arrest. Patients resuscitated from a VF arrest are at risk of refibrillation, but there are few data on the effects of already existing hypothermia on defibrillation and resuscitation.
