Editorial: Is daily awakening always safe in severely brain injured patients?

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 133-134

  Helbok, Raimund ^a,b   Badjatia, Neeraj ^a  

^a Milstein Hospital   (United States)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; SEDATIVE AGENT;

AROUSAL; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLEEDING; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; EDITORIAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; METABOLIC STRESS; MICRODIALYSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SAFETY; WAKEFULNESS;

BRAIN INJURIES; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SAFETY; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 70350565375     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-009-9262-4     Document Type: Editorial

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