Traumatic pediatric brain injury and intracranial pressure monitoring: Does it really improve outcome? [5]

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1675-

  Plötz, Frans B ^a   Kneyber, Martin ^a   Van Heerde, Marc ^a   Markhorst, Dick ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; MANNITOL; SEDATIVE AGENT;

COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LETTER; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 34548163380     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-007-0643-x     Document Type: Letter

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