Effect of head positioning on intracranial blood flow velocities in acute ischemic stroke: A pilot study

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 57-66

  Wojner, Anne W ^a   El Mitwalli, Ashraf ^a   Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Head of bed position; Ischemic stroke; Mean flow velocity; Middle cerebral artery; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD POSITION; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PILOT STUDY; PULSE PRESSURE;

EID: 0036155135     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002727-200202000-00007     Document Type: Article

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