Protecting both heart and brain: A noble goal for a noble gas

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2228-2229

  Kirkland, Lisa Lee ^a,b  

^a ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

cardioprotective; neuroprotective; N methyl D aspartate receptor; therapeutic hypothermia; xenon

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; ISOFLURANE; NITROUS OXIDE; NORADRENALIN; PROPOFOL; XENON;

AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN PROTECTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; EDITORIAL; HEART ARREST; HEART PROTECTION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN UPTAKE; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; XENON;

EID: 84883623300     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31828fd750     Document Type: Editorial

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