The surgical approach to the management of increased intracranial pressure after traumatic brain injury

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 736-748

  Li, Lucia M ^a   Timofeev, Ivan ^a   Czosnyka, Marek ^a   Hutchinson, Peter J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CRANIECTOMY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WOUND DRAINAGE;

BRAIN INJURIES; CATHETERIZATION; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DRAINAGE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE;

EID: 77956417145     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181e75cd1     Document Type: Review

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