Therapeutic hypothermia after traumatic brain injury in children: To cool or not to cool?

Resuscitation

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 185-186

  Hachimi Idrissi, Said ^a   Huyghens, Luc ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COOLING; EDITORIAL; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEWBORN HYPOXIA; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INFANT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 54049087496     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.09.004     Document Type: Editorial

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