The impact of initial management on the outcome of children with severe head injury

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 18, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 54-60

  Chiaretti, Antonio ^a   De Benedictis, Raffaella ^a   Della Corte, Francesco ^b   Piastra, Marco ^a   Viola, Luigi ^a   Polidori, Giancarlo ^a   Di Rocco, Concezio ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b MAGGIORE DELLA CARITÀ HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Glasgow Outcome Score; Hypotension; Hypoxia; Pediatric head injury; Secondary brain damage

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; MANNITOL;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURE; SURVIVAL; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NURSING HOME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES; ITALY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036483264     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-001-0533-4     Document Type: Article

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