Patients surviving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have shown better survival if treated with therapeutic hypothermia, and initial data now suggest that most of the patients who do survive after hypothermia have preserved cognitive function and are able to return to work. The cognitive function data were presented here at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) meeting by Samuel Moore, MD, from the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

Medscape Today by Sue Hughes

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