Methods of cooling: Practical aspects of therapeutic temperature management

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL. 7, 2009, Pages

  Seder, David B ^a   Van Der Kloot, Thomas E ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Cardiac arrest; Cooling; Fever; Intracranial pressure; Intravascular cooling; Shivering; Surface cooling; Therapeutic hypothermia; Therapeutic temperature management

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BUSPIRONE; CISATRACURIUM; CLONIDINE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; ETILEFRINE; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PETHIDINE; PROPOFOL; VECURONIUM;

ALGORITHM; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CATHETER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEVER; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SHIVERING; SIDE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CRYOANESTHESIA; DECISION TREE; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; HOSPITALIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTENSIVE CARE; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSIOLOGY; THERMOREGULATION;

ALGORITHMS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CRITICAL CARE; DECISION TREES; ENERGY METABOLISM; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATIENT SELECTION; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHIVERING;

EID: 67650315438     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181aa5bad     Document Type: Article

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