tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Novel applications of therapeutic hypothermia: report of three cases"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Novel applications of therapeutic hypothermia: report of three cases. | Available online http content 8 5 R343 Research Novel applications of therapeutic hypothermia report of three cases Koen J Hartemink1 Willem Wisselink2 Jan A Rauwerda3 Armand RJ Girbes4 and Kees H Polderman5 Open Access 1Surgical Resident Department of Intensive Care and Surgery VU University Medical Center Amsterdam The Netherlands 2Senior Consultant in Vascular Surgery Department of Surgery VU University Medical Center Amsterdam The Netherlands 3Chairman of the Vascular Surgery Division Department of Surgery VU University Medical Center Amsterdam The Netherlands 4Chairman of the Intensive Care Department VU University Medical Center Amsterdam The Netherlands 5Senior Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine Department of Intensive Care VU University Medical Center Amsterdam The Netherlands Corresponding author Kees H Polderman Received 22 July 2004 Accepted 26 July 2004 Published 18 August 2004 Critical Care 2004 8 R343-R346 DOI cc2928 This article is online at http content 8 5 R343 2004 Hartemink et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose provided this notice is preserved along with the article s original URL. Abstract Therapeutic hypothermia can provide neuroprotection in various situations where global or focal neurological injury has occurred. Hypothermia has been shown to be effective in a large number of animal experiments. In clinical trials hypothermia has been used in patients with postanoxic injury following cardiopulmonary resuscitation in traumatic brain injury with high intracranial pressure in the perioperative setting during various surgical procedures and for various other indications. There is thus evidence that hypothermia can be effective in various situations of neurological injury although a number of questions remain unanswered. We describe three patients with unusual causes of