HYPOTHERMIA Video:
Local TV station interviews Dr. Jon Rittenberger and others about therapeutic hypothermia 

HYPOTHERMIA PROTOCOLS:

Sample Hypothermia Protocol

Sample Hypothermia Orders



Links to Other Hypothermia Protocols:

Massachusetts General Hospital

London Health Sciences Centre

UCSF Neurology

Scandinavian Hypothermia Network

University of Chicago Emergency Resuscitation Center

University of Pennsylvania Center for Resuscitation Science



Important Publications About Hypothermia and Neurological Outcome:

Booth CM, Boone RH, Tomlinson G, Detsky AS. Is this patient dead, vegetative, or severely neurologically impaired? Assessing outcome for comatose survivors of cardiac arrest. JAMA 2004;291:870-9

Virkkunen I, Yli-Hankala A, Silfvast T. Induction of therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest in prehospital patients using ice-cold Ringer's solution: a pilot study. Resuscitation. 2004 Sep;62(3):299-302.

Zandbergen EG, de Haan RJ, Stoutenbeek CP, Koelman JH, Hijdra A. Systematic review of early prediction of poor outcome in anoxic-ischaemic coma. Lancet. 1998 Dec 5;352(9143):1808-12.