Report of a consensus meeting on human brain temperature after severe traumatic brain injury: Its measurement and management during pyrexia

Frontiers in Neurology

Volumn NOV, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Childs, Charmaine ^a   Wieloch, Tadeusz ^b   Lecky, Fiona ^c   Machin, Graham ^d   Harris, Bridget ^e   Stocchetti, Nino ^f  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b Wallenberg Centre for Neuroscience   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain temperature; Cooling; Fever; Measurement; Pyrexia

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954548946     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642295     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2010.00146     Document Type: Article

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