The role of hypothermia in the management of severe brain injury: A meta-analysis

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 1077-1083

  Harris, Odette A ^a   Colford Jr , John M ^b   Good, Matthew C ^b   Matz, Paul G ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN INJURY; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEAD INJURY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; REVIEW; RISK; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMIA; BLOOD COAGULATION; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PNEUMONIA; PUBLICATION BIAS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036314346     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneur.59.7.1077     Document Type: Review

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