Does multiple trauma increase the mortality rate from severe traumatic brain injury by increasing the burden of secondary cerebral ischemic insults?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1278-1280

  Prough, D S ^a   DeWitt, D S ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral ischemia; Mortality determinants; Multiple trauma; Outcome studies; Secondary brain injury; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE OXYGENATION;

EID: 0034979395     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200106000-00042     Document Type: Editorial

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