Cooling treatment after cardiac arrest is cost-effective, Penn study shows
Wednesday, August 5, 2009 - 09:42
in Health & Medicine
(PHILADELPHIA) -- A brain-preserving cooling treatment called therapeutic hypothermia is a cost-effective way to improve outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, which claims the lives of more than 300,000 people each year in the United States and leaves thousands of others neurologically devastated.