Cerebral protection in severe brain injury: Physiological determinants of outcome and their optimisation

British Medical Bulletin

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 226-258

  Menon, David K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALFENTANIL; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CLONIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; FENTANYL; LAUDANOSINE; MANNITOL; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; SUFENTANIL; THIOPENTAL; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN INJURY; CRYOANESTHESIA; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NERVE INJURY; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NEUROPROTECTION; OXIMETRY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEDATION;

BRAIN INJURIES; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0033023896     PISSN: 00071420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/0007142991902231     Document Type: Review

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