Comment on "the Lund Concept for the treatment of severe head trauma-physiological principles and clinical application" [2]

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2078-

  Llompart Pou, Juan A ^a   Pérez Bárcena, Jon ^a   Abadal, Josep M ^a   Homar, Javier ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO SON ESPASES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADRENAL SUPPRESSION; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG USE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEVER; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LETTER; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEVER; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

EID: 33751520105     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-006-0395-z     Document Type: Letter

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