Necessity of repeat head CT and ICU monitoring in patients with minimal brain injury

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1015-1018

  Bee, Tiffany K ^a   Magnotti, Louis J ^a   Croce, Martin A ^a   Maish, George O ^a   Minard, Gayle ^a   Schroeppel, Thomas J ^a   Zarzaur, Ben L ^a   Fabian, Timothy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain trauma; Intensive care monitoring; Minimal brain injury; Repeat head CT; Traumatic brain injury; Traumatic head injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; HEAD INJURY; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67651062401     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31819adbc8     Document Type: Article

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