Treatment of traumatic brain injury in pediatrics

Current Treatment Options in Neurology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 393-404

  Madikians, Andranik ^a,b   Giza, Christopher C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MATTEL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; AMIODARONE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ETIRACETAM; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT; LIDOCAINE; MANNITOL; PENTOBARBITAL; PHENYLEPHRINE; PHENYTOIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TOPIRAMATE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASYSTOLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL PONTINE MYELINOLYSIS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; COUGHING; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIURESIS; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG POTENTIATION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOREIGN BODY; HEMODYAMIC INSTABILITY; HEMODYNAMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIA; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; IRRITABILITY; LIFESTYLE; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OSMOLARITY; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; PATIENT EDUCATION; PEDIATRICS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRACHEA DISEASE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREMOR;

EID: 70350136444     PISSN: 10928480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11940-009-0044-2     Document Type: Review

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