The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 5 , Pages 1325-1332.e2 , May 2010

Successful resuscitation after prolonged periods of cardiac arrest: A new field in cardiac surgery

Read at the Eighty-ninth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, Boston, Mass, May 9–13, 2009.

  • Georg Trummer, MD

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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  • Katharina Foerster, MD

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Gerald D. Buckberg, MD

      Affiliations

    • David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif
    • ,
  • Christoph Benk, MD

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Claudia Heilmann, MD

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Irina Mader, MD

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Friedrich Feuerhake, MD

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Oliver Liakopoulos, MD

      Affiliations

    • David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif
    • ,
  • Kerstin Brehm, MD

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
    • ,
  • Friedhelm Beyersdorf, MD

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Friedhelm Beyersdorf, MD, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Hugstetter Str. 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.

Received 14 April 2009 ,Revised 23 July 2009 ,Accepted 9 August 2009.

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 Disclosures: None.

PII: S0022-5223(09)01144-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.08.046

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 5 , Pages 1325-1332.e2 , May 2010

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