Non-traumatic coma in children

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 303-312

  Kirkham, F J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH CARE; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING;

BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMA; COMA, POST-HEAD INJURY; DIABETIC COMA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EPILEPSY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NUCLEAR FAMILY; PROGNOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0034815725     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.85.4.303     Document Type: Review

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