Download or read book Therapeutic Hypothermia written by Samuel Tisherman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapeutic Hypothermia will provide a review of the subject, in particular, resuscitative hypothermia and include known mechanisms of action and results from both mechanistic and outcome laboratory studies and clinical trials. Cooling methods and potential side effects of hypothermia will be addressed as well as recommendations for future laboratory and clinical research. This volume will be of interest to both the researcher interested in therapeutic hypothermia as well as the clinician interested in the potential use of therapeutic hypothermia in their patient population.