Editors' Note

Editors' Note: In "Practice guideline summary: Reducing brain injury following cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Report of the Guideline Development, Dissemination, and Implementation Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology," the authors concluded that prehospital cooling did not improve neurologic outcome or survival in patients who subsequently underwent in-hospital therapeutic hypothermia. Drs. Machado et al. comment that studies in animals and of accidental hypothermia have shown a benefit to early hypothermia, and that, intuitively, any neuroprotective intervention should be initiated as soon as possible.
Source: Neurology - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: WRITECLICK & amp;reg; EDITOR ' S CHOICE Source Type: research