Treatment of traumatic brain injury with moderate hypothermia

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 336, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 540-546

  Marion, Donald W ^a,b   Penrod, Louis E ^a   Kelsey, Sheryl F ^a   Obrist, Walter D ^a   Kochanek, Patrick M ^a   Palmer, Alan M ^a   Wisniewski, Stephen R ^a   Dekosky, Steven T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; EXCITATORY AMINO ACIDS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTERLEUKIN-1; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO;

EID: 0031045652     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199702203360803     Document Type: Article

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