HeartWire (2/7, Stiles) reports, "Therapeutic hypothermia can help preserve the brain during cardiac arrest, so maybe it could protect organs throughout the body in other conditions that threaten their blood supply-such as cardiogenic shock," argues "a viewpoint published online...in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology." The JACC article "surveys the available, mostly preclinical evidence for just such a systemic protective effect from induced hypothermia." The authors of the viewpoint article write that therapeutic hypothermia "merits further study as a potential novel treatment for post-MI cardiogenic shock and could represent the next measurable advance in survival after MI
POSTED BY: STEVEN ALMANY, MD
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