Brain tissue oxygen tension is more indicative of oxygen diffusion than oxygen delivery and metabolism in patients with traumatic brain injury

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 378-379

  Tasker, Robert C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN OXYGEN TENSION; BRAIN REGION; LETTER; OXYGEN DELIVERY DEVICE; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

OXYGEN;

BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; OXYGEN;

EID: 59649115486     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181932573     Document Type: Letter

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