A multicentre randomized controlled trial of moderate hypothermia to prevent intracranial hypertension in acute liver failure

Journal of Hepatology

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 273-279

  Bernal, William ^a   Murphy, Nicholas ^b   Brown, Sarah ^a   Whitehouse, Tony ^b   Bjerring, Peter Nissen ^c   Hauerberg, John ^c   Frederiksen, Hans J ^c   Auzinger, Georg ^a   Wendon, Julia ^a   Larsen, Fin Stolze ^c  

^a KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acute liver failure; Cerebral oedema; Encephalopathy; Hypothermia; Randomized controlled trial; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; INDOMETACIN; MANNITOL; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TACROLIMUS; THIOPENTAL;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CONTINUOUS HEMOFILTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING DEVICE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MODERATE HYPOTHERMIA; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE MANAGEMENT DEVICE; TEMPORAL LOBE; ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84969174982     PISSN: 01688278     EISSN: 16000641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhep.2016.03.003     Document Type: Article

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