Cardiac arrest occurs. ... Surgeons would administer EPR when the patient goes into cardiac arrest. ... Tisherman states that "the ultimate goal of this study is to rapidly cool trauma victims who have suffered cardiac arrest from bleeding with a flush of ice-cold sodium chloride to preserve the patient to enable surgical control of bleeding, followed by delayed resuscitation with cardiopulmonary bypass (Clinical trials, 2011).... Once the patient has met the criteria the surgical team will insert an arterial catheter into the descending thoracic aorta. ...

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