Management of traumatic brain injury

Current Treatment Options in Neurology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 142-154

  Losiniecki, Andrew ^a   Shutter, Lori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; ETIRACETAM; FENTANYL; LORAZEPAM; MANNITOL; MIDAZOLAM; PENTOBARBITAL; PHENYTOIN; PROPOFOL; QUETIAPINE; SEDATIVE AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRAZODONE;

AGITATION; AMNESIA; ATAXIA; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN TISSUE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CELL SWELLING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONSTIPATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; COUGHING; DIET; DIURESIS; DIZZINESS; DROWSINESS; DRUG DOSE TITRATION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROLYTE BALANCE; FEVER; GAIT DISORDER; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEADACHE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEPRESSION; HEART FUNCTION; HEMATOMA; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LIFESTYLE; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MICRODIALYSIS; NAUSEA; NEURAL STEM CELL; NYSTAGMUS; PAIN; PHLEBITIS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RHINITIS; SEDATION; SEIZURE; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SOMNOLENCE; STEVENS JOHNSON SYNDROME; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOSIS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

EID: 77953542889     PISSN: 10928480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11940-010-0063-z     Document Type: Review

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