Mortality reduction after implementing a clinical practice guidelines-based management protocol for severe traumatic brain injury

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 190-195

  Arabi, Yaseen M ^a,b   Haddad, Samir ^a   Tamim, Hani M ^b   Al Dawood, Abdulaziz ^a,b   Al Qahtani, Saad ^a,b   Ferayan, Ahmad ^a   Al Abdulmughni, Ibrahim ^a   Al Oweis, Jalal ^a   Rugaan, Asia ^a  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Guidelines; Mortality; Protocol; Severe Head Injury; Trauma; Traumatic Brain Injury

Indexed keywords

ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; GLUCOSE; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MANNITOL; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT; PARACETAMOL; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; AIRWAY; ANALGESIA; APACHE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN PERFUSION; BREATHING; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPRESSION GARMENT; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; DISABILITY; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD POSITION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OSMOLARITY; OSMOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEDATION; SEIZURE; STRESS ULCER; SURVIVOR; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77953288818     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2009.05.004     Document Type: Article

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