Recommendations of the neuroanesthesia working group of the German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine for the acute management of patients with severe head trauma;Innerklinische akutversorgung des patienten mit Schadel-Hirn-Trauma: Empfehlungen des wissenschaftlichen arbeitshreises neuroanasthesie der DGAI

Anasthesiologie und Intensivmedizin

Volumn 39, Issue 7-8, 1998, Pages 399-412

  Dinkel, M ^a   Hennes, H J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia: acute management; Cerebral perfusion pressure; Head trauma; Hyperventilation; Neuroprotection; Secondary injury

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN PERFUSION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROLYTE BLOOD LEVEL; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOCAPNIA; HYPOXEMIA; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; NEUROPROTECTION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; STRESS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 0031844631     PISSN: 01705334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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