Therapeutic Hypothermia in the Intensive Care Unit

Therapeutic hypothermia is a strategy to lower core body temperature to achieve neuroprotection, and is increasingly used in the intensive care unit. This therapy has strong evidences to protect the brain in patients with hypoxic-ischemic insults from cardiac arrest and perinatal asphyxia. Therapeut...

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Main Author: Sang-Beom Jeon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Korean Neurocritical Care Society 2014-06-01
Series:Journal of Neurocritical Care
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Online Access:http://www.e-jnc.org/upload/pdf/jnc-7-1-6.pdf