Brain metabolism is significantly impaired at blood glucose below 6 mM and brain glucose below 1 mM in patients with severe traumatic brain injury

Critical Care

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Meierhans, Roman ^a   Béchir, Markus ^a   Ludwig, Silke ^a   Sommerfeld, Jutta ^a   Brandi, Giovanna ^a,b   Haberthür, Christoph ^c   Stocker, Reto ^a   Stover, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^c Luzerner Kantonsspital   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; INSULIN; LACTIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTERIAL BLOOD; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HUMANS; INSULIN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PYRUVIC ACID; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956187763     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc8869     Document Type: Article

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