... centrifugal pump(Medtronic, Inc., Minneapolis, MN). CPB was initiatedwithin 10 minutes of the decision for its use and 58 min-utes after the arrival of the patient to the ED; the patient'score ... mgepinephrine intravenously. The patient converted to sinusrhythm, but within 90 seconds he went into ventriculartachycardia and subsequently into ventricular fibrillation;CPR was continued. ... afterresuscitation). His temperature did not change afternearly 60 minutes of conventional warming therapies thatincluded warm fluid instillation (intravenous, gastric, andintrapleural), use of a warming...