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Editorial
. 2012 Dec 11;126(24):2803-5.
doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.153619.

Therapeutic Hypothermia on Its 10th Anniversary: Is it Time to Turn the Thermostat Down?

Tomas Drabek, Patrick M Kochanek
Editorial

Therapeutic Hypothermia on Its 10th Anniversary: Is it Time to Turn the Thermostat Down?

Tomas Drabek et al. Circulation. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr. Kochanek is a co-provisional patent holder on 1) a hypothermia strategy “Emergency Preservation and Resuscitation,” 2) a CMU Invention Disclosure 2012-081 “Validation of a Multiplex Biomarker Panel for Detection of Abusive Head Trauma in Well-Appearing Children,” and 3) US Provisional Patent “Small Molecule Inhibitors of RNA binding MOTIF (RBM) Proteins for the Treatment of Acute Cellular Injury.”

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