Acute rehabilitation after severe head injury

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 573-575

  Greenwood, R ^a  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETIDRONIC ACID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGITATION; AMNESIA; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CONFUSION; CONTRACTURE; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEHYDRATION; EDITORIAL; GENERAL SURGERY; HEAD INJURY; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALNUTRITION; NEUROSURGERY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION CENTER; SPASTICITY; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ENGLAND; HUMANS; REHABILITATION CENTERS;

EID: 11944262112     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02688690400022888     Document Type: Editorial

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