Improved cerebral oxygenation after high-dose inhaled aerosolized prostacyclin therapy for acute lung injury: A case report

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1155-1158

  Stiefel, Michael F ^a   Zaghloul, Kareem A ^a   Bloom, Stephanie ^a   Gracias, Vicente H ^a   LeRoux, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENTOBARBITAL; PROSTACYCLIN;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADULT; AEROSOL; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LUNG CONTUSION; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEUROIMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; X RAY FILM;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADULT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRUM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EPOPROSTENOL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; OXYGEN; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36048954126     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31815965e3     Document Type: Article

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