Treatment of traumatic brain injury: One size does not fit all

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1208-1210

  Warner, David S ^a,b,c   Borel, Cecil O ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL;

APOPTOSIS; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; EDITORIAL; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOTHERMIA; INFLAMMATION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4644248997     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000139930.04010.0D     Document Type: Editorial

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