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Combating Hyperthermia in Acute Stroke

Author(s) -

Myron D. Ginsberg,

Raul Busto

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/01.str.29.2.529

Subject(s) - medicine , hyperthermia , ischemia , neuroprotection , penumbra , anesthesia , hypothermia , brain ischemia , stroke (engine) , cardiology , mechanical engineering , engineering

Moderate elevations of brain temperature, when present during or after ischemia or trauma, may markedly worsen the resulting injury. We review these provocative findings, which form the rationale for our recommendation that physicians treating acute cerebral ischemia or traumatic brain injury diligently monitor their patients for incipient fever and take prompt measures to maintain core-body temperature at normothermic levels.

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