Standardized antipyretic treatment in stroke: A pilot study

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 382-389

  Kallmünzer, Bernd ^a   Krause, Christiane ^a   Pauli, Elisabeth ^a   Beck, Alexander ^a   Breuer, Lorenz ^a   Köhrmann, Martin ^a   Kollmar, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute stroke care; Fever; Hyperthermia; Normothermia; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; DIPYRONE; PARACETAMOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CALF PACKING; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; COOLING; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT SAFETY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ACETAMINOPHEN; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIPYRETICS; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DIPYRONE; FEMALE; FEVER; GERMANY; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STROKE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78751645274     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321733     Document Type: Article

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