Hypothermia for intracranial hypertension after traumatic brain injury

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 373, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 2403-2412

  Andrews, Peter J D ^a   Sinclair, H Louise ^b   Rodriguez, Aryelly ^c   Harris, Bridget A ^b,c   Battison, Claire G ^b   Rhodes, Jonathan K J ^b,c   Murray, Gordon D ^c  

^a WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG EFFICACY; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEDATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BRAIN INJURIES; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BARBITURATES; BRAIN INJURIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84949480256     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1507581     Document Type: Article

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