Severe head injury in the United Kingdom and Ireland: A survey of practice and implications for management

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1743-1748

  Matta, Basil ^a   Menon, David ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

brain; coma; head injury; head trauma; hyperventilation; intracranial pressure; monitoring, transcranial Doppler ultrasonography; near infrared spectroscopy; neurologic emergencies; sedation; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; ANALGESIC AGENT; ATRACURIUM; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CODEINE PHOSPHATE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIAMORPHINE; ETOMIDATE; FENTANYL; FUROSEMIDE; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; LIDOCAINE; MANNITOL; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; PANCURONIUM; PROPOFOL; SEDATIVE AGENT; SUCRALFATE; VECURONIUM;

ARTICLE; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; IRELAND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; STRESS ULCER; UNITED KINGDOM;

BRAIN INJURIES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; IRELAND; NEUROSURGERY; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0029908320     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199610000-00023     Document Type: Article

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