The effect of intraventricular administration of nicardipine on mean cerebral blood flow velocity measured by transcranial doppler in the treatment of vasospasm following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 159-164

  Webb, A ^a   Kolenda, Jennifer ^a   Martin, Kathleen ^a   Wright, Wendy ^a   Samuels, Owen ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraventricular administration; Nicardipine; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Transcranial Doppler; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

NICARDIPINE;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN VASOSPASM; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; NICARDIPINE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 77953612307     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-009-9307-8     Document Type: Article

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