Where should patients with severe traumatic brain injury be managed?: Patients can be safely managed in a nonspecialist center

Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 354-356

  Petsas, Anna ^a   Waldmann, Carl ^a  

^a ROYAL BERKSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; MANNITOL; PROPOFOL;

BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN PERFUSION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT SAFETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN INJURIES; CRITICAL CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; NEUROSURGERY; SPECIALIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 77957578996     PISSN: 08984921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ANA.0b013e3181f0da95     Document Type: Review

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