Intranasal Cooling for Cerebral Hypothermia Treatment
The controlled lowering of core body temperature to 32°C to 34°C is defined as therapeutic hypothermia (TH). Therapeutic hypothermia has been shown to improve neurological outcome and survival in unconscious patients successfully resuscitated after cardiac arrest. Brain temperature is important for...
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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
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Uppsala universitet, Anestesiologi och intensivvård
2010
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-134278 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-554-7959-6 |