Acute care management of severe traumatic brain injuries

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1-23

  Yanko, J R ^a   Mitcho, K ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral perfusion pressure; Head injury; Intracranial pressure; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FUROSEMIDE; GLUCOCORTICOID; MANNITOL; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; PANCURONIUM; PENTOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PROPOFOL; SEDATIVE AGENT; THIOPENTAL; VECURONIUM;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FAT EMBOLISM; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOTENSION; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUNG EDEMA; NUTRITION; PNEUMONIA; RESUSCITATION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY; CONTINUING EDUCATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST; NOTE;

EID: 0035117609     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002727-200102000-00002     Document Type: Article

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