The use of 23.4% hypertonic saline for the management of elevated intracranial pressure in patients with severe traumatic brain injury: A pilot study

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 277-282

  Kerwin, Andrew J ^a   Schinco, Miren A ^a   Tepas III, Joseph J ^a   Renfro, William H ^b   Vitarbo, Elizabeth A ^a   Muehlberger, Michael ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH JACKSONVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypertonic saline; Intracranial pressure; Mannitol; Severe traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; INOTROPIC AGENT; MANNITOL; PENTOBARBITAL; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM OSMOLALITY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; DIURETICS, OSMOTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MANNITOL; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69349101707     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181acc726     Document Type: Article

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