The Toronto prehospital hypertonic resuscitation-head injury and multiorgan dysfunction trial: Feasibility study of a randomized controlled trial

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 363-372

  Morrison, Laurie J ^a,b   Baker, Andrew J ^a,b,c   Rhind, Shawn G ^d   Kiss, Alex ^e,g   MacDonald, Russell D ^b,f,g   Schwartz, Brian ^b,g,h   Perreira, Tyrone ^a   Simitciu, Merita ⁱ   Trompeo, Anna ^d   Black, Sandra E ^b,g   Stuss, Donald T ^j   Rizoli, Sandro B ^b,g  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f Ornge Transport Medicine   (Canada)

^g SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h Sunnybrook Osler Centre For Prehospital Care   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^j ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

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Author keywords

Emergency medical services; Feasibility; Hypertonic saline; Immune modulation; Neuro Imaging; Neurofunctional and neurocognitive outcomes; Organ failure; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL STUDY; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMERGENCY CARE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL RATE; VALIDATION STUDY;

APACHE; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DEXTRANS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; ONTARIO; RESUSCITATION; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960700384     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: 15578615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2010.08.021     Document Type: Article

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