Near the end of the meeting a leading figure in the field, Dr. Robert Hauser, of the MinneapolisHeartInstitute, summarized the current state of the Riata crisis and discussed its broader implications.
"We've had patients who have been stone-cold out for least 20 minutes we know that for sure and they've come back normal or nearly normal, " says Michael Mooney, a cardiologist who heads the therapeutic hypothermia program at MinneapolisHeartInstitute.