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  Therapeutic Cooling: Reducing Fever

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2) Effectiveness of an Intravascular Cooling Method Compared With a Conventional Cooling Technique in Neurologic Patients; Hinz et al. J Neurosurg Anesthesiol 2007;19:130-135

3) Equipment review: Cooling catheters to induce therapeutic hypothermia? By Polderman et al, Critical Care 2006, 10:234 (9 November) doi:10.1186/cc5023

5) Safety and Therapeutical Benefit of Hemicraniectomy Combined with Mild Hypothermia in Comparison with Hemicraniectomy Alone in Patients with Malignant Ischemic Stroke. Thomas Els, et al. from Cerebrovascular Diseases 2006;21:79-85

6) Treatment of Fever in the Neurologic Intensive Care Unit with a Catheter-Based Heat Exchange System; Diringer et al. Criti Care Med 2004, Vol. 32, No. 2

8) Safety and efficacy of a novel intravascular cooling device to control body temperature in neurologic intensive care patients: A prospective pilot study. Schmutzhard E, Engelhardt K, Beer R, Brössner G, Pfausler B, Spiss H, Unterberger I, Kampfl A. Critical Care Medicine 2004; 32: 2481-2488

9) Temperature Elevations are Deleterious in the Brain Injured Patient (Myron Ginsberg MD)

10) Induction of Hypothermia After Intraoperative Hypoxic Brain Insult - Case Report; McDonagh et al by Anesth Analg 2006;103:180 -1.Fever in the Neuro ICU: Current Prevention Methods Are Inadequate (Donald Marion MD)

15) Endovascular Cooling with Heat Exchange Catheters: A New Method to Induce and Maintain Hypothermia. Keller E, Imhof H, Gasser S, Terzic A, Yonekawa Y. Intensive Care Medicine 2003; 29: 939-943

16) Prophylyctic Normothermia - a new concept with innovative technology. Schmutzhard et al. International Journal of Intensive Care 2003; Spring

23) Intravascular Temperature Modulation in the Neurosurgical Critical Care Unit. Lasater; Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, October 2006, Vol 38, No.5

24) Managing temperature in brain-injured patients. Olson & Graffagnino. Nursing2005, July 32cc1

25) Use of Intravascular Temperature Modulation as as Adjunct to Prevention of Secondary Brain Injury in a Patient with an Epidural Hematoma at the AANN San Diego Meeting, April 22 - 25, 2006 by Marie Lasater at Barnes Jewish Hospital

26) Using the Alsius Intravascular HT Device, Poster Presentation at the AANN San Diego Meeting, April 22- 25, 2006 by Jean Pruitt & Jill Jones at Emory University Hospital

27) Intravascular Fever Control With The Alsius Cool Line Catheter vs. Traditional Means of Fever Control in the Neurotrauma ICU: A Nursing Survey" Poster Presentation at the Trauma Nursing (STN) Meeting, Saturday, March 19, 2005 by Gielarowski, Puccio, Darby and Yonas.

28) Novel intravascular heat exchange central venous catheter reduces fever and nursing time associated with neuro intensive care patients; Nancy Lemon (Proposed AACN Region 6 Abstract, September 27, 2004)

29) A Hot Topic: Temperature Regulation in the Neuroscience Patient, Poster Presentation at the AANN San Diego Meeting, April 22- 25, 2006 by Nicole Bennett & Jessica Ziegler at University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics in Madison, Wisconsin

30) Fever control using a "CoolGard System" by Karen Holmes, Practice Development Nurse, Critical Care & Sandy Whitehead at Nottingham University Hospitals, September 2006

31) Fever in the Neuro ICU: Current Prevention Methods Are Inadequate. Marion.

32) Temperature Elevations Are Deleterious In The Brain-Injured Patient. Ginsberg.

33) Induced Normothermia Improves Brain Neurochemistry After Traumatic Brain Injury. Miller, Hirt, Vespa, Division of Neurosurgery, UCLA Medical Center. Neurocritical Society Annual Meeting Poster Presentation, November 2007

36) Intravascular Cooling Device in Patients with Severe Head Injury. Stipper M, Kerr M, Puccio A, Darby J, Yonas H. Neurocritical Care Society Meeting (NCS) Scottsdale, Arizona, February 27, 2005, 8:00- 9:30a.m.

  Therapeutic Cooling: Induced Hypothermia

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39) Endovascular cooling in a patient with neuroleptic malignant syndrome, Diedler et al from Department of Neurology, University of Heidelberg, Germany and Department of Neurology, Pontificia, Universidad Catolica de Chile, Chile. J Neurological Sciences 264 (2008) 163-165

41) Comparison of different cooling methods to induce and maintain normo-and hypothermia in ICU patients: a prospective intervention study. Hoedemaekers CC, Ezzahti MM, et al. Crit Care 11:R91, 2007.

49) Equipment review: Cooling catheters to induce therapeutic hypothermia? By Polderman et al, Critical Care 2006, 10:234 (9 November) doi:10.1186/cc5023

58) Therapeutic Hypothermia with Endovascular Cooling; Kjetil Sunde, Intensive Care Med, 2004;12:1

64) Extracorporeal venovenous cooling for induction of mild hypothermia in human-sized swine. Holzer M, Behringer W, Janata A, Bayegan K, Schima H, Deckert Z, Losert U, Laggner AN, Sterz F. Crit Care Med 33:1346-1350, 2005.

66) Case report: severe heat stroke with multiple organ dysfunction - a novel intravascular treatment approach. Broessner, Schmutzard et al from Neurological Intensive Care Unit, Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria. Critical Care Forum 9;5:R498-R501.

67) Endovascular Hypothermia for Heat Stroke: A Case Report; Mégarbane, Intensive Care Med, 2004;30:170

69) Safety and Efficiency of Intravascular Temperature Management for Therapeutic Hypothermia. Don Marion.

70) Hypothermia for Refractory Status Epilepticus. Corry, Axelrod, Murphy, Diringer. Washington University St. Louis. Neurocritical Society Annual Meeting Poster Presentation, November 2007.

  Therapeutic Warming

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74) Case Report: Core warming of a burn patient during excision to prevent hypothermia. Corallo, King Pizano, Namias, Schulman from DeWitt Daughtry Family Department of Surgery, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Burns (2007), doi:10.1016/j.burns.2007.08.012./

75) Intravascular Temperature Control System to Maintain Normothermia in Organ Donors. Bassin, Bleck, Nathan. Neurocritical Care DOI 10.1007/s12028-007-9008-0.

76) Intravascular Temperature Control for the Maintenance of Normothermia During Burn Surgery. Carl Schulman. October 2007.

77) Use of an Intravascular Warming Catheter to Maintain Normothermia During Surgery. Carl Schulman at Jackson Memorial, Miami. Southern Regional Burn Conference Poster Presentation, Augusta, Georgia. November 2 - 3, 2007.

78) Using an Intravascular Warming Catheter to Maintain Normothermia During Burn Surgery. King, Corallo at Ryder Trauma, Miami. American College of Surgeons (ACS) Poster Presentation, October 8 - 11, 2007.

79) Temperature Control in a Case of Hyperthermia in a Burns Patient - The Novel Use of A Catheter Based Heat Exchange System. Alice Mavrogordato at Nottingham, England. European Burns Association Poster Presentation, September 13 - 15, 2007.

80) A novel method of intravascular temperature modulation to treat severe hypothermia; Lasater et al from Barnes Jewish Hospital. Emerg Med J 2006;23:e56 (http://www.emjonline.com/cgi/content/full/23/10/e56). doi: 10.1136/emj.2006.035360

81) An Intravascular Cooling Device to Reverse Refractory Burn-Associated Hypothermia. Koukoulitisios et al from 19th ESICM Annual Congress - Barcelona, Spain, September 2006 SUPPLEMENT S52 on Monday, September 25, 2006, 11:10H - 13:00H

82) Preliminary Report of a Novel Therapy for Maintaining Normothermia in Organ Donors; Bleck et al, NTI 5-8-04 Poster Sessions

83) Feasibility of an Intravenous Warming Device to Rewarm Cardiac surgery Patients; Koenders et al by Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Dept. of Anesthesiology1 and Cardiothoracic Surgery

85) Feasibility of an Intravenous Warming Device to Rewarm Cardiac surgery Patients; Koenders et al by Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Dept. of Anesthesiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery

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