Prognostic factors and outcome of children with severe head injury: An 8-year experience

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 129-136

  Chiaretti, Antonio ^a   Piastra, Marco ^a   Pulitanò, Silvia ^a   Pietrini, Domenico ^a   De Rosa, Gabriella ^a   Barbaro, Roberta ^a   Di Rocco, Concezio ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Childhood; Glasgow outcome score; Prognostic factors; Severe head injury; Therapeutic algorithms

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; GLUCOSE; INDOMETACIN; PHENYTOIN; PROPOFOL; THIOPENTAL;

ARTICLE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN SURGERY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ANOXIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0036556046     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-002-0558-3     Document Type: Article

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