Emergency Medicine – PICO #1

Brief description of patient problem/setting (summarize the case very briefly) While viewing a patient come into the emergency department for a cardiac arrest, you investigate different modalities that can used to extend neurological outcomes and survival rates of affected patients before they hit the ambulance doors of the ED. One of the longer standing attending physicians talks about cooling techniques that can possibly be utilized. Search Question: Clearly state the question (including outcomes or criteria to be tracked) In adults with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, does prehospital therapeutic hypothermia compared to standard care without prehospital hypothermia improve neurological outcomes and survival …

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