Traumatic Brain Injury

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 655-678

  Heegaard, William ^a   Biros, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; DIAZEPAM; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; LORAZEPAM; PHENYTOIN; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A;

BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EPILEPTIC STATE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOXIA; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MORBIDITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 34548418425     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: 07338627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2007.07.001     Document Type: Review

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