Targeted temperature management (therapeutic hypothermia) is a treatment method used to prevent potential complications that can develop in relation to the increased temperature in the brain as a result of cardiac arrest. Due to costs and various health policies there is no comprehensive study in the world that has been able to guide the relevant literature on therapeutic hypothermia. We have presented a 25-year-old female patient in our study who developed cardiac arrest after the administration of propofol for sedation before undergoing a diagnostic upper gastroscopy procedure and received a successful therapeutic hypothermia therapy following a resuscitation of 19 minutes.
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