Clinical review: Brain-body temperature differences in adults with severe traumatic brain injury

Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Childs, Charmaine ^a   Lunn, Kueh W ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; CINAHL; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MEDLINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84876719353     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc11892     Document Type: Review

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