Guidelines for the management of severe traumatic brain injury: Still needed?;Linee guida per la gestione del trauma cranico severo: Sono ancora necessarie?

Minerva Anestesiologica

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 579-581

  Rossi, Sandra ^a   Castioni, C A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b S GIOVANNI BOSCO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; STEROID;

BRAIN PERFUSION; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INJURY SEVERITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 56749173689     PISSN: 03759393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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