{"id":1214,"date":"2026-01-25T23:09:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=1214"},"modified":"2026-01-25T23:09:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:09:58","slug":"defibrillation-during-hypothermia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=1214","title":{"rendered":"Defibrillation during hypothermia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Defibrillation is often considered ineffective in hypothermic cardiac arrest patients with shockable rhythms, particularly at core temperatures \u226430 \u00b0C, and the optimal timing and number of shocks as well as the role of rewarming have remained uncertain. However, a retrospective observational study published in <em>Resuscitation<\/em> showed that defibrillation attempts can be successful even before rewarming in patients with core temperatures \u226430 \u00b0C, helping to clarify this longstanding clinical dilemma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.resuscitationjournal.com\/article\/S0300-9572(26)00016-X\/fulltext\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.resuscitationjournal.com\/article\/S0300-9572(26)00016-X\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Link to article<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defibrillation is often considered ineffective in hypothermic cardiac arrest patients with shockable rhythms, particularly at core temperatures \u226430 \u00b0C, and the optimal timing and number of shocks as well as the role of rewarming have remained uncertain. However, a retrospective observational study published in Resuscitation showed that defibrillation attempts can be successful even before rewarming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,14,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cardiac-arrest","category-pgy1","category-pgy2","category-pgy3","category-pgy4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}