Clinical review: Therapy for refractory intracranial hypertension in ischaemic stroke

Critical Care

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Jüttler, Eric ^a   Schellinger, Peter D ^b   Aschoff, Alfred ^a   Zweckberger, Klaus ^a   Unterberg, Andreas ^a   Hacke, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; GLYCEROL; HETASTARCH; MANNITOL; OSMOTIC AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TROMETAMOL; BUFFER; OSMOTIC DIURETIC AGENT; STEROID;

BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; CRYOANESTHESIA; METHODOLOGY; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BARBITURATES; BRAIN EDEMA; BUFFERS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIURETICS, OSMOTIC; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; STEROIDS; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 44149086589     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc6087     Document Type: Review

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