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Should survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest be treated with hypothermia?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Colin Q.-T. Lee
Affiliation:
McGill University, Sir Mortimer B. Davis–Jewish General Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Montreal, Que.
Joel Turner
Affiliation:
McGill University, Sir Mortimer B. Davis–Jewish General Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Montreal, Que.
Eddy Lang
Affiliation:
McGill University, Sir Mortimer B. Davis–Jewish General Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Montreal, Que.

Abstract

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Type
CJEM Journal Club • Club de Lecture JCMU
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2002

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