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Evidence for the use of hypothermia after cardiac arrest

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Daniel Howes*
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine and Critical Care, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont.
Robert Green
Affiliation:
Emergency Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
Sara Gray
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont.
Robert Stenstrom
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Providence Health Care, and St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC
David Easton
Affiliation:
Winnipeg, Man.
*
Empire III, Kingston General Hospital, 76 Stuart St., Kingston ON K7L 2V7, danielwilliamhowes@hotmail.com

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2006

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