Should we measure cerebral blood flow in head-injured patients?

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 429-439

  Steiner, L A ^a   Czosnyka, Marek ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; Cerebral blood flow; Head injury; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

AUTOREGULATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYGEN SATURATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BRAIN; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OXIMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; XENON;

EID: 0036815775     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0268869021000030221     Document Type: Review

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