Elevated intracranial pressure detected by bedside emergency ultrasonography of the optic nerve sheath

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 376-381

  Blaivas, Michael ^a   Theodoro, Daniel ^b   Sierzenski, Paul R ^c  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c CHRISTIANA CARE HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Elevated intracranial pressure; Emergency medicine; Emergency ultrasonography; Head injury; Ocular ultrasound; Sub arachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; NERVE SHEATH; OPTIC NERVE; PAPILLEDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; OPTIC NERVE; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037389555     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.10.4.376     Document Type: Article

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