Successful CPR in a severely hypothermic patient using continuous thoracostomy lavage.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
Severe hypothermia with cardiopulmonary arrest often requires prolonged resuscitation while rewarming procedures are implemented. A 63-year-old male in cardiopulmonary arrest with a core body temperature of 23.7 C was resuscitated successfully after core rewarming by means of a two-chest-tube continuous thoracostomy lavage procedure. This lavage procedure resulted in effective and rapid rewarming after other conventional rewarming methods had failed.
Medical subject headings
- Heart Arrest
- Hot Temperature
- Hypothermia
- Resuscitation
- Therapeutic Irrigation
- Thoracostomy