Time out for albumin or a valuable therapeutic component in severe head injury?

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 738-741

  Grände, Per Olof ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; HEMOGLOBIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; NORMAL VALUE; NOTE; ONCOTIC PRESSURE; PLASMA VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL;

CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HUMANS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45149108848     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2008.01688.x     Document Type: Note

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