Critical care of poor-grade subarachnoid hemorrhage

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 85-93

  Wartenberg, Katja E ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

complications; outcome; poor grade; subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANEMIA; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN TISSUE; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; DELAYED CEREBRAL ISCHEMIA; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEVER; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LONG TERM CARE; MICRODIALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; STUNTING SYNDROME; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TISSUE OXYGENATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VASOSPASM;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 79953119761     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0b013e328342f83d     Document Type: Review

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