Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 5 , Pages 617-621 , May 2010

Intra-arrest selective brain cooling improves success of resuscitation in a porcine model of prolonged cardiac arrest

  • Hao Wang

      Affiliations

    • Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine, Rancho Mirage, CA, USA
    • Department of Critical Care Medicine, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China
    • ,
  • Denise Barbut

      Affiliations

    • BeneChill, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA
    • ,
  • Min-Shan Tsai

      Affiliations

    • Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine, Rancho Mirage, CA, USA
    • ,
  • Shijie Sun

      Affiliations

    • Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine, Rancho Mirage, CA, USA
    • Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    • ,
  • Max Harry Weil

      Affiliations

    • Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine, Rancho Mirage, CA, USA
    • Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    • ,
  • Wanchun Tang

      Affiliations

    • Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine, Rancho Mirage, CA, USA
    • Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine, 35100 Bob Hope Drive, Rancho Mirage, CA 92270, United States. Tel.: +1 760 778 4911; fax: +1 760 778 3468.

Received 5 October 2009 ,Revised 9 December 2009 ,Accepted 17 January 2010.

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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.2010.01.027.

PII: S0300-9572(10)00077-8

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.01.027

Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 5 , Pages 617-621 , May 2010

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