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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Covaciu, Lucian
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Anestesiologi och intensivvård 2010
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-134278
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