The role of cranial computed tomography in the immediate post-cardiac arrest period

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 533-538

  Cocchi, Michael N ^a   Lucas, Jason M ^a   Salciccioli, Justin ^a   Carney, Erin ^a   Herman, Susan ^a   Zimetbaum, Peter ^a   Donnino, Michael W ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Cerebral edema; Intracranial hemorrhage; Neuroimaging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

BRAIN EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78649631623     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-010-0403-8     Document Type: Article

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