Systemic hypothermia for the treatment of acute cervical spinal cord injury in sports

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-54

  Dietrich, William Dalton ^a   Cappuccino, Andrew ^b,c   Cappuccino, Helen ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Buffalo Spine Surgery   (United States)

^c Team Orthopedic Surgeon Buffalo Bills   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; DIVING; FOOTBALL; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MODEST SYSTEMIC HYPOTHERMIA; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; RUGBY; SKIING; SPORT; SPORT INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; ANIMAL; CERVICAL SPINE; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; INJURY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHASE 1 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; ATHLETIC INJURIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE I AS TOPIC; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPORTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955661916     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e318205e0b3     Document Type: Article

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