Do conventional treatments of severe traumatic head injury worsen outcome?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 415-416

  Grände, Per Olof ^a   Reinstrup, Peter ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; MANNITOL; VASOCONSTRICTOR AGENT;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN EDEMA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; ISCHEMIA; LETTER; NEPHROTOXICITY; PATIENT SAFETY; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REBOUND; SURVIVAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 69349099106     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181aa236e     Document Type: Letter

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