Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Pre-hospital therapeutic hypothermia.-3. Molecular Mechanism of Reperfusion Injury.- 4. Cardiac Arrest: Who Should Be Cooled?.- 5. Hypothermia: How to Cool.- 6. How to Implement Therapeutic Hypothermia in the Hospital.- 7. Post-Cardiac Arrest: How to Develop and Implement a Standard Therapeutic Hypothermia Protocol?.- 8. Complications of Therapeutic Hypothermia Following Cardiac Arrest.- 9. Pharmacology & Therapeutic Hypothermia.- 10. Determination of Neurological Prognosis.- 11. Therapeutic hypothermia as a treatment of myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock

Reviews

From the reviews:“This textbook is a good introductory discussion of a how to manual for clinical hypothermia proceeding cardiac arrest. … This is essential reading for all doctors, neurosurgeons, emergency management practitioners, and students interested in hypothermia.” (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, February, 2014)