SCCM Pod-35 CCM: Cooling After Cardiac Arrest

Raina M. Merchant, MD, a resident in emergency medicine at the University of Chicago, and Benjamin S. Abella, MD, an assistant professor of medicine in the section of emergency medicine at the University of Chicago, discuss their article published in the July issue of Critical Care Medicine. The article, "Therapeutic Hypothermia Utilization Among Physicians After Resuscitation From Cardiac Arrest," addresses whether physicians are cooling patients after cardiac arrest (Crit Care Med Volume 34, Number 5, Jul 2006 pp 1935-1940).