Unique challenges in clinical trials in traumatic brain injury

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Menon, David K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Neurocritical care; Neuroprotection; Outcome prediction; Research ethics in unconscious subjects; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DRUG MEGADOSE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INFORMED CONSENT; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORTALITY; NEUROPROTECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFUSION PRESSURE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SAMPLE SIZE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; ETHICS; LEGAL ASPECT; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE;

BRAIN INJURIES; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 58849165813     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181921225     Document Type: Article

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