Severe traumatic brain injury: Outcome in patients with diffuse axonal injury managed conservatively in Hospital Sultanah Aminah, Johor Bahru - An observational study

Medical Journal of Malaysia

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 280-288

  Liew, Boon Seng ^a   Johari, S A ^a   Nasser, A W ^a   Abdullah, J ^b  

^a HOSPITAL SULTANAH AMINAH   (Malaysia)

^b SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Diffuse axonal injury; Intracranial pressure monitoring; Outcome; Severe traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

INOTROPIC AGENT; MANNITOL;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN RESUSCITATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; INTUBATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PUPIL REFLEX; SEDATION; SEPSIS; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77958050910     PISSN: 03005283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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