Increasing hematocrit above 28% during early resuscitative phase is not associated with decreased mortality following severe traumatic brain injury

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 627-635

  Flückiger, Carole ^a   Béchir, Markus ^a   Brenni, Mirko ^b   Ludwig, Silke ^a   Sommerfeld, Jutta ^a   Cottini, Silvia R ^a   Keel, Marius ^a   Stocker, Reto ^a   Stover, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Critical care; Emergency room; Intracranial pressure; Secondary brain injury; Transfusion

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ARTICLE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CRANIOTOMY; CRITICAL CARE; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PLASMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953028949     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-009-0579-8     Document Type: Article

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