Continuous monitoring and intervention for cerebral ischemia in tuberculous meningitis

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Figaji, Anthony A ^a,b   Sandler, Simon I J ^a,b   Fieggen, A Graham ^a,b   Le Roux, Peter D ^a,b   Peter, Jonathan C ^a,b   Argent, Andrew C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral ischemia; Cerebral oxygenation; Cerebral tissue oxygenation monitoring; Infarcts; Tuberculous meningitis

Indexed keywords

BCG VACCINE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ALLOPATHY; ARTICLE; BCG VACCINATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; BRAIN TISSUE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMATOSE PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; TUBERCULOUS MENINGITIS; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; COMA; FATALITY; INFANT; MONITORING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMA; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; TUBERCULOSIS, MENINGEAL;

EID: 61749092068     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e318172e8b7     Document Type: Article

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