Hypertonic saline for cerebral edema

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 524-530

  Georgiadis, Alexandros L ^a   Suarez, José I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CHLORIDE; FUROSEMIDE; MANNITOL; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BLEEDING; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CATHETER INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEHYDRATION; FLUID THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERNATREMIA; HYPEROSMOLARITY; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOTENSION; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LETHARGY; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MORTALITY; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; OSMOLARITY; REVIEW; SAFETY; SEIZURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VEIN THROMBOSIS; ANIMAL; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; HUMANS; HYPERNATREMIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC;

EID: 1542389392     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-003-0058-1     Document Type: Review

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