Critical care management of head trauma in children

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 11 SUPPL., 2002, Pages

  Mazzola, Catherine A ^a   Adelson, P David ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Diffuse axonal injury; Head trauma; Intracranial pressure; Pediatric; Shaken baby; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID; CARBAMAZEPINE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; FENTANYL; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; MANNITOL; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; PHENOBARBITAL; SEDATIVE AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTICONVULSANT THERAPY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LOBECTOMY; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NEUROTRAUMATOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PAIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0036861514     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200211001-00003     Document Type: Review

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