Long-time outcome after transient transtentorial herniation in patients with traumatic brain injury

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 337-340

  Skoglund, Thomas S ^a   Nellgard B ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Outcome; Transtentorial herniation; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CLONIDINE; MANNITOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CRANIECTOMY; DEATH; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALLING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYDRIASIS; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRANSTENTORIAL BRAIN HERNIATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CHILD; DIURETICS, OSMOTIC; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERVENTILATION; MALE; MANNITOL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 15944409973     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2005.00624.x     Document Type: Article

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