Active cooling in traumatic brain-injured patients: A questionable therapy?

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1233-1238

  GrAnde P O ^a   Reinstrup, P ^a   Romner, B ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ACCIDENT; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COOLING; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENTS;

EID: 70349744063     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2009.02074.x     Document Type: Review

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