Barbiturate coma in severe hemispheric stroke: Useful or obsolete?

Neurology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1608-1613

  Schwab, Stefan ^a   Spranger, Matthias ^b   Schwarz, Stefan ^b   Hacke, Werner ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DOPAMINE; MANNITOL; NORADRENALIN; THIOPENTAL; TROMETAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE;

EID: 0030878485     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.48.6.1608     Document Type: Article

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