Selective therapeutic hypothermia: A review of invasive and noninvasive techniques

OBJECTIVE: Therapeutic hypothermia is a promising treatment to prevent secondary neurologic injury. Clinical utility is limited by systemic complications of global hypothermia. Selective brain cooling remains a largely uninvestigated application. We review techniques of inducing selective brain cool...

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Main Authors: David Straus, Vinay Prasad, Lorenzo Munoz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Revinter Publicações 2011-12-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2011000700025&lng=en&tlng=en
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