Cerebral blood flow and the injured brain: How should we monitor and manipulate it?

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 131-137

  Dagal, Armagan ^a   Lam, Arthur M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral blood flow; cerebral oximetry; laser Doppler flowmetry; neuromonitoring; transcranial Doppler ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

XENON;

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN TISSUE; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; THERMAL DIFFUSION; TRANSCUTANEOUS OXYGEN MONITORING; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MICRODIALYSIS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OXIMETRY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PATIENT CARE MANAGEMENT; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RHEOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 79952952333     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e3283445898     Document Type: Article

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