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Hypothermia after traumatic brain injury. Report of the Neuroonaesthesia Working Group of the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine

Document type:
Review
Author(s):
Himmelseher, S
Abstract:
The benefit of therapeutic hypothermia after traumatic brain injury in adult patients remains a controversial issue in the literature. Nevertheless, there is widespread use of cooling after head trauma. In published clinical trials, hypothermia is used for the prevention of secondary brain injury or the reduction of intracranial hypertension which cannot be controlled otherwise. In approximately half of these studies, hypothermia resulted in a better outcome. The US multicenter trial published i...     »
Journal title abbreviation:
Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther
Year:
2004
Journal volume:
45
Journal issue:
5
Pages contribution:
262-+
Language:
de
Print-ISSN:
0939-2661
TUM Institution:
Klinik für Anästhesiologie (DHM)
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