Brain temperature exceeds systemic temperature in head-injured patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 562-567

  Rumana, Christopher S ^a   Gopinath, Shankar P ^a   Uzura, Masahiko ^a   Valadka, Alex B ^a   Robertson, Claudia S ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Head injury; Temperature, brain; Temperature, jugular bulb

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMA; CORE TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FEVER; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031913509     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199803000-00032     Document Type: Article

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