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NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
Volume 361, Issue 6, Pages 605-611Publisher
MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcp0903466
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A 55-year-old man collapses while jogging through the park. A bystander finds him unconscious and without a pulse and initiates cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) while an ambulance is summoned. On arrival in the emergency room, the patient is in ventricular fibrillation; the partial pressure of oxygen in arterial blood is 200 mm Hg, the pH is 7.25, and the bicarbonate level is 18 mmol per liter. Spontaneous circulation is reestablished, but he remains comatose with absent pupillary reflexes. He is then treated with hypothermia, achieving a core temperature of 34 degrees C in 4 hours, which is maintained for 24 hours, after which he remains unconscious. What would you advise regarding his neurologic prognosis?
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