chapter 1 Thermoregulation and Heat Balance / chapter 2 Hyperthermia and Fever / chapter 3 Temperature Monitoring / chapter 4 Biological and Molecular Mechanisms of Hypothermic Neuroprotection / chapter 5 Effects of Hypothermia on Cerebral Metabolism, Blood Flow, and Autoregulation / chapter 6 Complications of Hypothermia -- chapter 7 Complications of Rewarming / chapter 8 Defeating Thermoregulatory Defenses Against Hypothermia / chapter 9 Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer / chapter 10 Methods to Induce Hypothermia / chapter 11 Direct Brain Cooling / chapter 12 Prevention and Treatment of Fever in Neurocritical Care / chapter 13 Hypothermia for Traumatic Brain Injury and ICP Control -- chapter 14 Hypothermia for Ischemic Stroke / chapter 15 Hypothermia for Cardiac Arrest / chapter 16 Hypothermia for Acute Myocardial Infarction / chapter 17 Hypothermia in Neurological and Cardiac Anesthesia.