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  Therapeutic Cooling: Reducing Fever

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1) SCCM 2007 Poster Puccio-Controlled Normothermia Intracranial Hypertension

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

4) ESICM 2006 Efficiency of an Intravascular Cooling Method and Conventional Cooling Technique in Patients. Hinz et al (Georg-August-University, Göttingen & University Hospital, Kiel, Germany) Intensive Care Medicine, Vol 32, Sup 13/ Sept 2006: S206 (0792)

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

7) Acute brain injury: If hypothermia is good, then is hyperthermia bad?; Manno et al (Editorial) & Elevated body temperature independently contributes to increased length of stay in neurologic intensive care unit patients*; Diringer et al, Criti Care Med 2004, Vol. 32, No. 7

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)

11) Clinical Trial of an Air-Circulating Cooling Blanket For Ever Control in Critically III Neurological Patients; Neurology; vol 56 no 3, Feb '01

12) Hypothermia in the Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit; Neurosurgery, vol 47, No 4, Oct. '00

13) Fever in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage-Relationship to Vasospasm and Outcome; Neurology, vol 56, No 10, May '01

14) Incidence and Prognostic Significance of Fever Following Intracerebral Hemorrhage; Neurology, vol 54, No 2, Jan. '00

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

17) Rise of the Machines: Controlling the Body Temperature of Critically Ill Patients by Endovascular Catheters; Schwab; Kollmar; Neurocritical Care, vol 1 (2004):127-130

18) Controlled normothermia in neurologic intensive care. Review A Celebration of the Life of Peter J. Safar, MD, and Proceedings of the Second Annual Safar Symposium. Crit Care Med. 2004 Feb;32(2 Suppl):S43-5

19) Cool It On Cooling It - at least during aneurysm surgery (Editorial) by James E. Cottrell, Editor-In-Chief from the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology, April 2004; Vol 16, No. 2:113-114

20) Mild Hypothermia as a Protective Therapy during Intracranial Aneurysm Survery: A Randomized Prospective Pilot Trial; Hindman et al; Neurosurgery, vol 44, no 1, Jan '99

21) Effect of Mild Hypothermia on Uncontrollable Intracranial Hypertension after Severe Head Injury (ICP)

22) Endovascular Cooling for Moderate Hypothermia in Patients with Acute Stroke: First Results of a Novel Approach; Schwab et al; Stroke, vol 32, no 11, Nov '01

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

34) Experience with long-term hypothermia in 90 patients after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Emanuela Keller, Professor of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland. Oral presentation at the 13th Annual International Symposium Intracranial

35) Pressure (ICP) and Brain Monitoring, San Francisco, July, 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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37) AHA Guidelines for Treatment of Cardiac Arrest (1 page)

38) Cold infusions alone are effective for induction of therapeutic hypothermia but do not keep patients cool after cardiac arrest. Kliegel et al from Journal of Resuscitation, RESUS-3107 (2007)

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

40) Interventional Hypothermia and Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in a Patient with Anterior Wall ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Aborted Sudden Death. Koutouzis et al from Second Cardiology Department, Red Cross Hospital, Athens, Greece. Hellenic J Cardiol 48: 377- 379, 2007.

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.

42) Efficacy of and tolerance of mild induced hypothermia after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest using an endovascular cooling system. Pichon N, Amiel JB, Francois B, Dugard A, Etchecopar C, Vignon P. Critical Care 11:R71, 2007.

43) Implementation of a standardised treatment protocol for post resuscitation care after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Sunde K, Pytte M, Jacobsen D, Mangschau A, Jensen LP, Smedsrud C, Draegni T, Steen PA. Resuscitation, 73, 29-39, 2007.

44) Clinical application of mild therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest; Arrich J & ERC HACA-R Study Group. Crit Care Med 35: 1041-1047, 2007

45) Endovascular cooling improves neurological short-term outcome after prehospital cardiac arrest. Feuchtl A. GB, Lawrenz T., Bartelsmeier M., Stellbrink C. Intensivmed 44:37-42, 2007.

46) Efficacy and Safety of Endovascular Cooling After Cardiac Arrest. Cohort Study and Bayesian Approach. Holzer, et al from Stroke published online Jun 8, 2006; DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000227265.52763.16

47) CHEST 2005 Sarasota- Resuscitative Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest

48) Comparison of external and intravascular cooling to induce hypothermia in patients after CPR. Flemming K. SG, Ziegs E., Diewok C., Gildemeister R., Wunderlich C., Strasser R. from Dept. of Medicine/Cardiology, Heart Center, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany. GMS Ger Med Sci 4, Dec 2006.

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

50) Treatment of Comatose Survivors of Out-Of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest With Induced Hypothermia; Bernard et al New England Journal of Medicine, Vol 346:557-563, Feb '02 (Includes both articles and editorial)

51) Therapeutic hypothermia utilization among physicians after resuscitation from cardiac arrest. Merchant, et al from Critical Care Medicine. 2006;34:7:1-6

52) Cold Simple Intravenous Infusions preceding special endovascular cooling for faster induction of mild hypothermia after cardiac arrest - a feasibility study; Kliegel, Losert, Sterz, Holzer et al. Resuscitation 64 (2005) 347-351.

53) Hypothermia for neuroprotection after cardiac arrest: Systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis; Holzer, Bernard et al. Critical Care Medicine. 33(2):414-418, February 2005.

54) Therapeutic Hypothermia after SCA; Collins. International Hospital Equipment & Solutions, September 2004

55) Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest. An advisory statement by the Advanced Life Support Task Force of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation; Nolan et al, Resuscitation, Vol 57 231-235, '03

56) Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest. An advisory statement by the Advanced Life Support Task Force of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation; Nolan et al, Circulation. 2003;108:118-121

57) Application of therapeutic hypothermia in the ICU: opportunities and pitfalls of a promising treatment modality. Part 1: Indications and evidence; K.H. Polderman, Intensive Care Med (2004) 30:556-575

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

59) New Research in the Field of Stroke: Therapeutic Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest, Dietrich et al. Stroke, Vol. 34, No. 4, pages 1051-1063, yr.2003

60) Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest, Feasibility and Safety of an External Cooling Protocol; Felberg, et al. Circulation (2001) 104: 1799-1804

61) Effectiveness and Feasibility of Rapid Endovascular Cooling for Resuscitative Hypothermia; Holzer et al (Abstract ID: 108917) AHA Scientific Session, Nov. '02

62) Resuscitative Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest, Sterz & Holzer, 2003 SAEM Annual Meeting Handout, May 31, 2003

63) Mild Resuscitative Hypothermia Improves Favorable Neurological Recovery After Cardiac Arrest: Systematic Review of the Literature and Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis, Holzer, 2003 AHA Scientific Sessions - Abstract Posters, October 28, 2003 11/8/2003 5:30 - 7:00 PM

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.

65) Therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest: Unintentional overcooling is common using ice packs and conventional cooling blankets. Merchant et al. Critical Care Medicine, Crit Care Med 2006 Vol. 34, No. 12 (Suppl.)

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

68) Feasibility of Endovascular Cooling as an Adjunct to Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (Results of the LOWTEMP Pilot Study). Kandzari DE, Chu A, Brodie BR, Stuckey TA, Hermiller JB, Vetrovec GW, Hannan KL, Krucoff MW, Christenson RH, Gibbons RJ, Sigmon KN, Garg J, Hasselblad V, Collins K, Harrington RA, Berger PB, Chronos NA, Hochman JS, Califf RM. Am J Cardiol 93:636-639, 2004.

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.

71) EMS induced hypothermia protocol for patients experiencing ROSC after cardiac arrest. Brent Myers, WakeMed, NC. 2nd International Brain Hypothermia Symposium in Miami, Florida. October 25 - 27, 2007.

72) Efficacy and tolerance of hypothermia after cardiac arrest using an endovascular cooling system by Pichon et al, 19th ESICM Annual Congress - Barcelona, Spain. Intensive Care Medicine, Vol 32, Sup 13/ Sept 2006: S29 (0095)

73) Resuscitative Hypothermia After Cardiac Arrest: Performance in a Community Hospital at the CHEST Cardiac Issues in Critical Care in Montreal, Canada Meeting, November 1, 2005. Grimes, Anderson, Horiuchi, Concha, Fleegler, Hurwitz et al. CHEST / 128 / 4 / OCTOBER, 2005 SUPPLEMENT 167S. f

  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

84) Consequences of inadvertent perioperative hypothermia; Doufas. Best Practices & Research Clinical Anesthesiology Vol 17, No. 4, pp 535-549, 2003.

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

86) Maintaining Intraoperative Normothermia: A Meta-Analysis of Outcomes with Costs; Mahoney and Odom. AANA, 1999, Vol. 67

87) Perioperative Maintenance of Normothermia Reduces the Incidence of Morbid Cardiac Events; Frank. Journal of the American Medical Association, 1997, Vol 277

88) Perioperative Normothermia to Reduce the Incidence of Surgical Wound Infection; Kurz. The New England Journal of Medicine, 1996, Vol 334

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