A Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Phenytoin for the Prevention of Early Posttraumatic Seizures in Children with Moderate to Severe Blunt Head Injury

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 435-446

  Young, Kelly D ^a,e   Okada, Pamela J ^b   Sokolove, Peter E ^c   Palchak, Michael J ^c   Panacek, Edward A ^c   Baren, Jill M ^d   Huff, Kenneth R ^a,e   McBride, Duncan Q ^a,e   Inkelis, Stanley H ^a,e   Lewis, Roger J ^a,e  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHENYTOIN; PLACEBO;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEIZURE; SURVIVAL; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 12144289127     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2003.09.016     Document Type: Article

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