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195. Descriptive Study of the Use of External Cooling Blankets in Hyperthermia

BACKGROUND: Fever is a beneficial physiologic response to infection and is protective in gram-negative bacteremia and invasive candidiasis. Cooling blankets (CBs) are used in fevers due to a perception of providing symptomatic relief. However, external cooling of septic patients has been shown to be...

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Autores principales: Chen, Thomas, Malhotra, Prashant, Khameraj, Aradhana, Vyas, Pooja, Ong-Bello, Nelda, Rasul, Rehana, Schwartz, Rebecca, Farber, Bruce
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6810554/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.270