Lumbar drainage as treatment of refractory intracranial hypertension in bacterial meningitis

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1166-1167

  Javouhey, Etienne ^a   Richard, Nathalie ^a   Stamm, Didier ^a   Floret, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; THIOPENTAL;

ANUS SPHINCTER DISORDER; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CHOROID PLEXUS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LETTER; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; NECROSIS; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL;

EID: 46149087087     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-008-0996-9     Document Type: Letter

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