Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 4 , Pages 398-403 , April 2010

Feasibility and safety of combined percutaneous coronary intervention and therapeutic hypothermia following cardiac arrest

  • Leonardo M. Batista

      Affiliations

    • J. Philip Kistler Stroke Research Center, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Fabricio O. Lima

      Affiliations

    • J. Philip Kistler Stroke Research Center, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • James L. Januzzi Jr.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Vivian Donahue

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • Colleen Snydeman

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • ,
  • David M. Greer

      Affiliations

    • J. Philip Kistler Stroke Research Center, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Wang Ambulatory Care Center, Suite 720, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114-3117, USA. Tel.: +1 617 726 8459; fax: +1 617 726 5043.

Received 15 October 2009 ,Revised 21 November 2009 ,Accepted 5 December 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.2009.12.016.

PII: S0300-9572(09)00670-4

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.12.016

Resuscitation
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