Hypothermia for acute brain injury - Mechanisms and practical aspects

Nature Reviews Neurology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 214-222

  Choi, H Alex ^a   Badjatia, Neeraj ^a   Mayer, Stephan A ^a  

^a NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNESIUM; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM;

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FULMINANT HEPATIC FAILURE; HEART ARREST; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOXIC ISCHEMIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; NEUROPROTECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHIVERING; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TARGETED TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WARMING;

BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED;

EID: 84859597470     PISSN: 17594758     EISSN: 17594766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrneurol.2012.21     Document Type: Review

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