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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation with Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation in a Patient with Profound Accidental Hypothermia and Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation
We describe a patient with severe accidental hypothermia (≤25.4°C) and prolonged refractory ventricular fibrillation, lasting at least 4 hours and 8 minutes, who underwent cardiopulmonary resuscitation with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and survived without neurologic deficit.
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