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Temperature control in critically ill patients with a novel esophageal cooling device: a case series

BACKGROUND: Mild hypothermia and fever control have been shown to improve neurological outcomes post cardiac arrest. Common methods to induce hypothermia include body surface cooling and intravascular cooling; however, a new approach using an esophageal cooling catheter has recently become available...

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Autores principales: Hegazy, Ahmed F., Lapierre, Danielle M., Butler, Ron, Althenayan, Eyad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4615396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26481105
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12871-015-0133-6