Skip to main content
AAEM25 Main banner
Back
Evaluation

Scientific Assembly

Track Session

Session: Session 314

Hypothermic Cardiac Arrest

Wednesday, April 9, 2025
2:00pm – 2:20pm ET
Location: Sandringham/Windsor - 2nd Level
CE: 0.25 CME Credit
Environmental Recorded Session

    Speaker(s)

  • Alexandra Ortego, MD (she/her/hers)

    Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director
    NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine
    Garden City, New York

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Disclosure(s):
Alexandra Ortego, MD: No financial relationships to disclose
Hypothermic patient in cardiac arrest don't present to our Emergency Departments every day, but chances are we will all take care of one of these patients in our career. The decisions involved in evaluation and management of this group of patients differs significantly from those of most other patients that present in cardiac arrest. We will discuss the decision whether or not to continue resuscitation for patients in hypothermic cardiac arrest until they are "warm and dead," how the code management his similar and different from that of a normothermic patient and the indications and contraindications to ECMO (including when to transfer for ECMO.)

Learning Objectives:

  • Determine whether to continue resuscitation for patients in hypothermic cardiac arrest
  • Describe how code management of a patient in hypothermic cardiac arrest differs from other codes
  • Explain the indications and contraindications to ECMO in hypothermic patients