SIAARTI-SARNePI Guidelines for the management of severe pediatric head injury;SIAARTI-SARNePI Linee-Guida per il trattamento del trauma cranico pediatrico grave

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 70, Issue 7-8, 2004, Pages 549-604

  Pietrini, Domenico ^a   Savioli, A ^b   Grossetti, R ^c   Barbieri, M A ^b   Buscalferri, A ^d   Calamandrei, M ^e   Chiaretti, A ^a   David, A ^f   Di Rocco, C ^a   Dusio, M P ^g   Febi, G ^g   Gallini, C ^h   Giordano, F ^c   Girasole, V ^f   Lampugnani, E ⁱ   Laviani Mancinelli, R ^b   Levati, A ^j   Mazza, C ^k   Meneghini, L ^l   Paccagnella, F ^m   Piastra, M ^a   Procaccini, E ^b   Pusateri, A ^a   Scielzo, R ⁿ   Stofella, G ^k   Stoppa, F ^b   Tamburrini, G ^a   Testoni, C ^o   Tumolo, M ^c   Velardi, F ^b   Zei, E ^d   Latronico, N ^p   more..

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c REGINA MARGHERITA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^h C Arrigo Children's Hospital   (Italy)

ⁱ G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^j OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^k BORGO TRENTO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^l UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^m CA FONCELLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

ⁿ SANTOBONO PAUSILIPON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^o BELLARIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^p UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATRACURIUM; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CISATRACURIUM; CORTICOSTEROID; CURARE DERIVATIVE; FENTANYL; FUROSEMIDE; LIDOCAINE; MANNITOL; MIDAZOLAM; MIVACURIUM; PROPOFOL; RAPACURONIUM BROMIDE; ROCURONIUM; SUFENTANIL; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL; TUBOCURARINE CHLORIDE; VECURONIUM;

AIRWAY; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ASYSTOLE; BRADYCARDIA; BREATHING; BRONCHOSPASM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONVULSION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG CONTAMINATION; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FIRST AID; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HISTAMINE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; KETONURIA; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OPISTHOTONUS; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; FIRST AID; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ITALY; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATIENT TRANSFER; TRAUMA CENTERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4544269657     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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