The use of hypertonic saline for treating intracranial hypertension after traumatic brain injury

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1836-1846

  White, Hayden ^a   Cook, David ^b   Venkatesh, Bala ^b  

^a QEII Hospital   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; RINGER LACTATE SOLUTION; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; BRAIN OXYGEN TENSION; BRAIN WATER; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; DRUG MECHANISM; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERNATREMIA; INFLAMMATION; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33744499433     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000217208.51017.56     Document Type: Review

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