Can cerebral hypoperfusion after sympathetic storm be used to diagnose brain death? A retrospective survey in traumatic brain injury patients

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 688-697

  Chai, Chung Liang ^a,b   Tu, Yong Kwang ^c   Huang, Sheng Jean ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Brain death; Irreversible apneic coma; Sympathetic storm; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN;

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN STEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SYMPATHETIC TONE; TIME OF DEATH; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 40549089860     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31815ede12     Document Type: Article

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