Comment on: 'Hypocapnia and the injured brain: More harm than benefit'

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1923-

  Conte, Valeria ^a   Paternò, Rosalia ^a   Citerio, Giuseppe ^b   Stocchetti, Nino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID; TROMETAMOL;

ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CELL LOSS; EXCITOTOXICITY; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOCAPNIA; LETTER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; HYPOCAPNIA;

EID: 77956205944     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181e61a51     Document Type: Letter

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