Therapeutic hypothermia and temperature management
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Ther Hypothermia Temp Manag · Dec 2011
The Use of Hypothermia Therapy in Traumatic Ischemic / Reperfusional Brain Injury: Review of the Literatures.
Therapeutic mild hypothermia has been used widely in brain injury. It has evaluated in numerous clinical trials, and there is strong evidence for the use of hypothermia in treating patients with several types of ischemic / reperfusional (I/R) injuries, examples being cardiac arrest and neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. ⋯ This suggested that mild therapeutic hypothermia might be effective for I/R related traumatic brain injury. In this article we have reviewed much of the previous literature concerning the mechanisms of I/R injury to the protective effects of mild therapeutic hypothermia.