Ultrasonography of the optic nerve in neurocritically ill patients

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 644-652

  Moretti, Riccardo ^a   Pizzi, B ^a  

^a C Arrigo Children's Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DURA MATER; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; NERVE SHEATH; OBSERVER VARIATION; OPTIC NERVE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID PRESSURE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; OPTIC NERVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 79959854344     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2011.02432.x     Document Type: Review

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