Prevention and therapy of postresuscitation neurologic dysfunction

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 305-310

  Behringer, Wilhelm ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Brain ischaemia; Cardiac arrest; Hypothermia; Resuscitation

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ASSISTED VENTILATION; BLOOD GAS; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; BRAIN CIRCULATION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART ARREST; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; LUNG VENTILATION; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; METABOLIC REGULATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPERFUSION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; RESUSCITATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 43449092546     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e3282fad4f9     Document Type: Review

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