Brain injury after head trauma: Pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment

Veterinary Clinics of North America - Equine Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 199-216

  MacKay, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; BUTORPHANOL; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAZEPAM; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; FENTANYL; FLUNIXIN MEGLUMINE; FUROSEMIDE; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LIDOCAINE; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; MANNITOL; MEGLUMINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PENTOBARBITAL; PHENOBARBITAL; PREDNISOLONE; TIRILAZAD;

BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; BREATHING PATTERN; CATHETERIZATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; ENDOSCOPY; EPISTAXIS; FEVER; FRONTAL BONE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEAD INJURY; HORSE; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA; LUNG VENTILATION; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTRITION; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; OSTEOARTHROPATHY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PAIN; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; RHOMBENCEPHALON; SEIZURE; SKULL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HORSES;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 4143092810     PISSN: 07490739     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cveq.2003.11.006     Document Type: Review

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