Monitoring of cerebrovascular autoregulation: Facts, myths, and missing links

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 373-386

  Czosnyka, Marek ^a   Brady, Ken ^b   Reinhard, Matthias ^c   Smielewski, Piotr ^a   Steiner, Luzius A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Autoregulation; Cerebral blood flow; Monitoring neuro critical care

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; AUTOREGULATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN PERFUSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; BRAIN DISEASE; HOMEOSTASIS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MONITORING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 70349242127     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-008-9175-7     Document Type: Review

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