Decompressive Laparotomy: A Novel Approach in the Management of Severe Intracranial Hypertension

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 551-555

  Miglietta, Maurizio A ^a   Salzano, Laura J ^a   Chiu, William C ^a   Scalea, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MANNITOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABDOMINAL COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ABDOMINAL PRESSURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DECOMPRESSIVE LAPAROTOMY; DISEASE COURSE; FALLING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE DISTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER CONGESTION; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; MALE; MYDRIASIS; PERITONEAL FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SKIN GRAFT; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIDAL VOLUME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LAPAROTOMY; LOWER BODY NEGATIVE PRESSURE; MALE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0141633840     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000031177.95056.90     Document Type: Article

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