The "Lund concept" for the treatment of severe head trauma - Physiological principles and clinical application

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1475-1484

  Grände, Per Olof ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brain edema; Brain trauma; Brain volume regulation; Cerebral perfusion; Guideline; Intracranial pressure; Penumbra

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; ANALGESIC AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; GLYCEROL; INDOMETACIN; MANNITOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; NORADRENALIN; PARACETAMOL; PHENYLEPHRINE; PLASMA PROTEIN; PROSTACYCLIN; SEDATIVE AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STEROID;

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN SIZE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ERGOTISM; HEAD INJURY; HEART PROTECTION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOVOLEMIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER TOXICITY; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG DISEASE; NONHUMAN; ONCOTIC PRESSURE; OXYGENATION; PERFUSION; PERFUSION PRESSURE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESSORECEPTOR REFLEX; REVIEW; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SIDE EFFECT; STRESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLOOD VOLUME; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE;

EID: 33749237556     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-006-0294-3     Document Type: Review

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