Transcranial doppler ultrasonography in the assessment of cerebral circulation arrest: Improving sensitivity by trancervical and transorbital carotid insonation and serial examinations

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 326-335

  Conti, Alfredo ^a   Iacopino, Domenico G ^b   Spada, Antonella ^c   Cardali, Salvatore M ^a   Giusa, Maria ^a   La Torre, Domenico ^a   Campennì, Alfredo ^c   Penna, Olivia ^c   Baldari, Sergio ^c   Tomasello, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brain death; Cerebral circulatory arrest; Specificity and sensitivity; Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; OPHTHALMIC ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BLOOD FLOW; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN DEATH; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349237486     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-009-9199-7     Document Type: Article

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