Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest: The Mediterranean-diet Italian style

While waiting for cooling kits (when available), the need to obtain early cooling encourages the EMS personnel to use any available tool, mainly frozen vegetables or any food taken from the household freezer of the patient with cardiac arrest. The strength of guideline recommendations is translated into imaginative solutions by our emergency personnel, in order to earlier obtain the target temperature. Today, no data are available to define whether Mediterranean-style foodstuff is better than Western diet choices.