Management of Traumatic Brain Injury in the Intensive Care Unit

Neurologic Clinics

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 409-426

  Ling, Geoffrey S F ^a,b   Marshall, Scott A ^a,b  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMOCRIPTINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; ETIRACETAM; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NORADRENALIN; OPIATE; PENTOBARBITAL; PHENYLEPHRINE; PHENYTOIN; PROPOFOL; PROPRANOLOL; VALPROIC ACID;

BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DYSTONIA; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEVER; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOADING DRUG DOSE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOGENESIS; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SECOND IMPACT SYNDROME; SEDATION; SEIZURE; TACHYCARDIA; TAXONOMY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VASOSPASM;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MILITARY MEDICINE; WAR;

EID: 44349132072     PISSN: 07338619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ncl.2008.02.001     Document Type: Review

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