Hypothermia for brain protection and resuscitation

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 487-491

  Ramani, Ramachandran ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain protection; Hypothermia; Intracranial pressure; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN PROTECTION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; STROKE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; BRAIN INJURIES; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESUSCITATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748661306     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.aco.0000245272.84539.97     Document Type: Review

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