Chapter 11 - What’s cooler than being cool? Ice Cold! - Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest
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Dr. Doug Brown is an emergency physician and expert in wilderness medicine and mountain rescue with a special career focus on hypothermic cardiac arrest. He has been instrumental in building the rescue and resuscitation practices in Vancouver region of Canada and has published his work in the New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Brown talks with Alex and Venk about a bunch of very COOL topics!
Contacts:
TWITTER - @AlwaysOnEM; @VenkBellamkonda
INSTAGRAM – @AlwaysOnEM; @Venk_like_vancomycin; @ASFinch
EMAIL - AlwaysOnEM@gmail.com
References:
1. Brown DJ, Brugger H, Boyd J, Paal P. Accidental Hypothermia. N Engl J Med. 2012 Nov 15, 367(20):1930-8
2. Paal P, Brown DJ, Brugger H, Boyd J. In hypothermic major trauma patients the appropriate hospital for damage control and rewarming may be life saving. Injury. 2013 Nov;44(11):1665
3. Wanscher M, et al. Outcome of accidental hypothermia with or without circulatory arrest experience from the Danish Praesto Fjord boating accident. Resuscitation. 2012 Sep;83(9):1078-84
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