Brain tissue oxygen monitoring in traumatic brain injury: Cornerstone of care or another brick in the wall?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 371-372

  Kirkness, Catherine J ^a   Thompson, Hilaire J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; Hypoxia; Multimodality monitoring; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN TISSUE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMORBIDITY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MORTALITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK REDUCTION; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; INJURY SCALE; METABOLISM; MONITORING; NOTE;

OXYGEN;

BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OXYGEN;

EID: 59649089853     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181930eff     Document Type: Editorial

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