Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 1 , Pages 15-19 , January 2010

Cold saline infusion and ice packs alone are effective in inducing and maintaining therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest

Received 17 June 2009 ,Revised 28 August 2009 ,Accepted 8 September 2009.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the abstract of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.09.012.

PII: S0300-9572(09)00488-2

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.09.012

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