Low brain tissue oxygen predicts poor outcome, but does it give insight to possible interventions?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2134-2135

  Jichici, Draga ^a   Hemphill, J Claude ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain tissue oxygen monitoring; Cerebral blood flow; Cerebral perfusion pressure; Intracranial hypertension; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN OXYGEN TENSION; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MICRODIALYSIS; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; METABOLISM; NOTE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PROGNOSIS;

OXYGEN;

BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; OXYGEN; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 66449117445     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181a5e841     Document Type: Editorial

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