Acute secondary adrenal insufficiency after traumatic brain injury: A prospective study

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2358-2366

  Cohan, Pejman ^a,c   Wang, Christina ^b,c   McArthur, David L ^a   Cook, Shon W ^a   Dusick, Joshua R ^a   Armin, Bob ^a   Swerdloff, Ronald ^b,c   Vespa, Paul ^a   Muizelaar, Jan Paul ^d   Cryer, Henry Gill ^a   Christenson, Peter D ^b,c   Kelly, Daniel F ^a,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LOS ANGELES BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adrenal insufficiency; Cortisol; Etomidate; Hypopituitarism; Pentobarbital; Pituitary; Propofol; Stress response; Traumatic brain injury; Vasopressor

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CORTICOTROPIN; DOPAMINE; ETOMIDATE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; NORADRENALIN; PENTOBARBITAL; PHENYLEPHRINE; PROPOFOL; TETRACOSACTIDE; VASOPRESSIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 26444553905     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000181735.51183.A7     Document Type: Article

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