Temperature management in neurological and neurosurgical intensive care units.
Temperature management in neurological and neurosurgical intensive care units.
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神经科和神经外科重症监护病房的温度管理。
DOI:
10.1089/ther.2014.1504
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
1.2
通讯作者:
N. Badjatia
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作者:
K. Polderman;K. Lockhart;N. Badjatia
The use of temperature management in neurological and neurosurgical intensive care units (ICU) has gained acceptance and resulted in better outcomes in some patient populations. In various studies of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest as well as traumatic brain injury, directed temperature management protocols in the ICU have led to reductions in periods of reactive hyperthermia that occur in many patients with severe injuries. In addition, lowering the temperature to various levels of hypothermia also appears to reduce secondary injury mechanisms, intracranial pressure levels, and edema formation. Nevertheless, controversies exist in what patient population we should cool and what level of cooling is most appropriate in neurological settings. A series of stateof-the-art lectures presented at the 2014 Therapeutic Hypothermia and Temperature Management meeting in Miami brought together experts in the field of therapeutic hypothermia and temperature management strategies to discuss this important topic. Dr. Kees Polderman, Department of Critical Care, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, provided new information regarding the reasons to cool patients and new strategies for cooling awake patients, which is an important clinical question. In the awake state, patients shiver and this can produce barriers to reducing temperature effectively and making the patient comfortable. Dr. Kelley Lockhart, Department of Internal Medicine, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN, emphasized the potentially detrimental effects of fever in various patient populations, including subarachnoid hemorrhage. In these patients specifically, 70% develop fever during the first 10 days. Although it is difficult to determine causes underlying elevations in temperature, hyperthermia continues to be a risk factor that may be controlled by targeted temperature management. Dr. Neeraj Badjatia, Department of Neurology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, described novel approaches to monitor degrees of shivering in patient populations. Continuing studies are directed toward understanding the clinical relevance of shivering as well as antishivering strategies that may allow cooling to be introduced in the awake subject. It is clear that as therapeutic hypothermia and temperature management strategies are increasingly used by many caregivers, these types of questions are becoming more and more important to define and provide suitable strategies for better outcomes.