First clinical experience with intranasal cooling for hyperthermia in brain-injured patients

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 400-405

  Springborg, Jacob Bertram ^a   Springborg, Karoline Kanstrup ^a   Romner, Bertil ^a  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Brain cooling; Brain injury; Hyperthermia; Neurointensive care; Temperature

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BLADDER; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRANASAL COOLING; NOSE INJURY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THERAPY EFFECT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN INJURIES; FEVER; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878012117     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: 15560961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-012-9806-x     Document Type: Article

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