Successful treatment of severe heatstroke with therapeutic hypothermia by a noninvasive external cooling system

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 491-493

  Hong, Jen Yee ^a   Lai, Yi Chun ^a   Chang, Cheng Yu ^b   Chang, Shih Chieh ^a   Tang, Gau Jun ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FAR EASTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ATRACURIUM; CREATINE KINASE; INOTROPIC AGENT; LACTIC ACID; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PROPOFOL;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADULT; ARTERIAL GAS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BREATHING RATE; CASE REPORT; CONVULSION; CORE TEMPERATURE; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOLLOW UP; GENERALIZED EPILEPSY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAT STROKE; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LACTATE BLOOD LEVEL; LUNG EDEMA; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MILITARY SERVICE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROPROTECTION; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OLIGURIA; ORAL THERMOMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; PULSE RATE; SEIZURE; SHIVERING; SHOCK; SUMMER; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TRAINING; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

BODY TEMPERATURE; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; HEAT STROKE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861532395     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2011.09.013     Document Type: Article

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