Barbiturate therapy for patients with refractory intracranial hypertension following severe traumatic brain injury: Its effects on tissue oxygenation, brain temperature and autoregulation

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 143-148

  Thorat, J D ^a   Wang, E C ^a   Lee, K K ^a   Seow, W T ^a   Ng, I ^a  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Barbiturate coma; Brain oxygenation; Brain temperature; Cerebral autoregulation; Head injury

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WHITE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; BARBITURATES; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 37349045012     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2006.08.014     Document Type: Article

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