Abbott Northwestern finds the value of a cold heart in hypothermia therapy for cardiac-arrest patients
[St. Paul Pioneer Press, Dec. 4, 2009] When Dan Horgan emerged from a coma — one week after suffering a severe cardiac arrest — one of his first thoughts was annoyance that his beard had been shaved off.
That faded quickly, though, as the 48-year-old father of two saw his friends’ and relatives’ joy — and he realized something unusual had happened.
“I could just tell,” he said. “It was the relief in their faces.”
Horgan is one of more than 140 cardiac-arrest patients whose treatment at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis included icing his body and inducing hypothermia.
Read the entire story on the Pioneer Press website .
Posted: December 4th, 2009, 7:00 am under Allina System.
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