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Articles:
"THERAPEUTIC TEMPERATURE
MANAGEMENT IN CRITICALLY ILL PATEINT
Indications for Cost-Effective Outcomes
Kees H. Polderman, MD, PhD
Department of Critical Care Medicine. University of Pittsburg Medical Center. Pittsburg U.S.
Therapeutic temperature management is an increasingly important therapeutic in critical care, particularly in patients with neurological injuries. This applies both to induced therapeutic hypothermia and fever management. It has been conclusively demonstrated that patients with any type of neurological injury who develop either infectious or non-infectious fever have a significantly increased risk of adverse outcome. In addition, patients who develop fever also incur stays of increased length in the ICU and hospital, and higher costs of care. Therapeutic hypothermia has been shown to improve outcomes in patients with post-hypoxic brain injury, particularly newborn babies with neonatal asphyxia and patients with out-of hospital cardiac arrest. Recent literature suggested that therapeutic cooling is cost-effective in these categories of patients."
Reference: ICU Management, the official management and practice jurnal, volume 11- issue 4 – winter 2011/2012.
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