Emergent epidural blood patch: Lifesaving treatment of paradoxical herniation

Archives of Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 670-671

  Muehlschlegel, Susanne ^a   Voetsch, Barbara ^b   Sorond, Farzaneh A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PATCH; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMIPARESIS; HERNIA; HUMAN; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; STROKE;

BLOOD PATCH, EPIDURAL; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CRANIOTOMY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HERNIA; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL PUNCTURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 66249117975     PISSN: 00039942     EISSN: 15383687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archneurol.2009.33     Document Type: Article

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