Therapeutic hypothermia for acute ischemic stroke: Ready to start large randomized trials

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1079-1093

  Van Der Worp, H Bart ^a   MacLeod, Malcolm R ^b   Kollmar, Rainer ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Animal models; Clinical trials; Hypothermia; Shivering MR spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; BUSPIRONE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLONIDINE; DEXETOMIDINE; PETHIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDATION; SHIVERING; SIDE EFFECT;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STROKE;

EID: 77953154351     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2010.44     Document Type: Review

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