Outcome in neurocritical care: Advances in monitoring and treatment and effect of a specialized neurocritical care team

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue SUPPL. 9, 2006, Pages

  Suarez, Jose I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical illness; Hospital mortality; Intensive care unit; Length of stay; Neurointensivist; Neurologic critical care; Neurological; Neurosurgical; Organization; Outcome and process assessment

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM RUPTURE; APACHE; BARTHEL INDEX; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMATOSE PATIENT; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MORTALITY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; REVIEW; SHORT FORM 36; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING;

EID: 33747382408     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000231881.29040.25     Document Type: Review

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