Efficacy and Safety of a Nasopharyngeal Catheter for Selective Brain Cooling in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Prospective, Non-randomized Pilot Study.

Raphael Einsfeld Simões FerreiraBernardo Lembo Conde de PaivaFlávio Geraldo Rezende de FreitasFlávia Ribeiro MachadoGisele Sampaio SilvaRafael Mônaco RaposoConrado Feisthauer SilveiraRicardo Silva Centeno

Published in: Neurocritical care (2020)

The results suggest that our noninvasive method for selective brain cooling, using a novel nasopharyngeal catheter, was effective and safe for use in humans.

Keyphrases

traumatic brain injury
resting state
white matter
functional connectivity
double blind
open label
ultrasound guided
cerebral ischemia
multiple sclerosis
clinical trial
phase ii
randomized controlled trial
brain injury
blood brain barrier