Treatment of fever in the neurologic intensive care unit with a catheter-based heat exchange system

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 559-564

  Diringer, Michael N ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Central venous catheter; Fever; Head injury; Intracerebral hemorrhage; Ischemic stroke; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NARCOTIC AGENT; PARACETAMOL; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BODY MASS; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; BRONCHITIS; CATHETER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; FEMALE; FEVER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAT EXCHANGE; HEMATOMA; HEMATOTHORAX; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERFORATION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THROMBOSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

BRAIN DISEASES; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 1242342683     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000108868.97433.3F     Document Type: Article

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