Patient transport and brain oxygen in comatose patients

Neurosurgery

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 925-931

  Swanson, Edward W ^a   Mascitelli, Justin ^a   Stiefel, Michael ^a   MacMurtrie, Eileen ^a   Levine, Joshua ^a   Kofke, W Andrew ^a   Yang, Wei ^a   Le Roux, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain oxygen; Computed tomography; Intracranial pressure; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Transport; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN OXYGEN TENSION; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMATOSE PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANOXIA; BRAIN; COMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 77951692783     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000368543.59446.A4     Document Type: Article

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