Severe traumatic brain injury: Maximizing outcomes

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 119-128

  Tang, Mary E ^a   Lobel, Darlene A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Brain mass lesions; Brain tissue oxygenation; Cerebral perfusion pressures; Computed tomography; Injury sequelae; Secondary injury; Seizures; Severe injury; Traumatic injury

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; MANNITOL; PHENYTOIN; SEDATIVE AGENT; STEROID; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT;

ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN PERFUSION; CALORIC INTAKE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOTHERMIA; INFECTION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DIET THERAPY; DRUG EFFECT; HOSPITALIZATION; HYPOTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DIURETICS; FUROSEMIDE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MANNITOL; NUTRITION THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 66849083891     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20106     Document Type: Article

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