Ultimate treatment for a patient with severe traumatic brain injury without intake for 192 hours after Wenchuan massive earthquake

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 113-116

  Gu, Jian Wen ^a   Zhou, Hu Tian ^a   Yang, Tao ^a   Cheng, Jing Min ^a   Qu, Yan ^a   Li, Cui Ying ^a   Li, Qing Jie ^b   Lü, Ji Yun ^b   Cheng, Shou Long ^b   Liu, Jian Jun ^c   Kuang, Yong Qin ^a   Huang, Hai Dong ^a   Yang, Li Bin ^a   He, Wei Qi ^a   Zhao, Kai ^a   Song, Li Xin ^c   Zheng, Xiao Dong ^c   Liu, Shu Xin ^c   Sun, Yan ^c   He, Hong Lian ^c   Wu, Jiang ^c   Liu, Xu Sheng ^c   Lu, Min ^a   more..

^a General Hospital of the People's Liberation Army Chengdu Military Region   (China)

^b BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

^c The 255 Hospital of Chinese PLA   (China)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Earthquake; Shock

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CREATININE; POTASSIUM; SODIUM;

ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CHINA; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIOTOMY; DEHYDRATION; DIET RESTRICTION; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; EARTHQUAKE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FAMILY THERAPY; FLUID THERAPY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERNATREMIA; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SHOCK; SOMNOLENCE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND INFECTION;

BRAIN INJURIES; CHINA; CRANIOTOMY; EARTHQUAKES; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60649094775     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2009.01.022     Document Type: Article

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