Successful use of prolonged mild hypothermia in a patient with severe head injury and diffuse brain swelling - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 116-120

  Murakami, Mamoru ^a,b   Tsukahara, Tetsuya ^a   Ishikura, Hiroyasu ^a   Hatano, Taketo ^a   Nakakuki, Takuya ^a   Ogino, Eiji ^a   Aoyama, Takako ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION KYOTO MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HACHIOJI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffuse brain swelling; Head injury; Hypothermia

Indexed keywords

MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LUNG CONTUSION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED;

EID: 33947647424     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.47.116     Document Type: Article

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