Mild-induced hypothermia and neuroprognostication following cardiac arrest

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2537-2538

  Cronberg, Tobias ^a   Wise, Matt P ^b   Nielsen, Niklas ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^c HELSINGBORG HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN DEATH; COMA; CONVALESCENCE; EGO DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; LETTER; MYOCLONUS; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); WARMING;

FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE;

EID: 84864226389     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31825458f5     Document Type: Letter

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