Temperature Management in Acute Neurologic Disorders

Neurologic Clinics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 585-603

  Axelrod, Yekaterina K ^a,b   Diringer, Michael N ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; BUSPIRONE; CATECHOLAMINE; CORTICOSTEROID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE;

ANEURYSM; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; CATECHOLAMINE RELEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EPILEPTIC STATE; EVAPORATION; FEVER; FLUID SHIFT; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEAT LOSS; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTRACELLULAR FLUID; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LOW DRUG DOSE; METABOLIC STRESS; NERVE CELL LESION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDATION; SHIVERING; STROKE PATIENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMODYNAMICS; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEVER; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTENSIVE CARE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES;

EID: 44349168811     PISSN: 07338619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ncl.2008.02.005     Document Type: Review

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