Post Cardiac Arrest Induced Hypothermia Protocol

Code Chill” will be called through the hospital beeper system. ... Other causes of coma (mass lesions, metabolic coma, seizures, drug overdose, head trauma, cerebrovascular accident, etc.) ... Ventricular arrhythmias (hypothermic patients are more susceptible to atrial and ventricular fibrillation). Myocardial depression, bradycardia, angina. ................
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