Paroxysmal sympathetic hyperactivity after acquired brain injury: A review of diagnostic criteria

Brain Injury

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 925-932

  Perkes, Iain E ^a,b,c   Menon, David K ^b   Nott, Melissa T ^a   Baguley, Ian J ^a,d  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

acquired brain injury; autonomic; diagnosis; Dysautonomia; storm

Indexed keywords

BACLOFEN; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT;

AGITATION; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN INJURY; BREATHING RATE; BRUXISM; CATATONIA; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DECEREBRATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIAPHORESIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSAUTONOMIA; DYSTONIA; FEVER; FLUSHING; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCLE TONE; MYDRIASIS; NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME; PAIN; PAROXYSMAL SYMPATHETIC HYPERACTIVITY; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEROTONIN SYNDROME; SPASTICITY; STIFF MAN SYNDROME; SURVIVOR; SWEATING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79961181327     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2011.589797     Document Type: Review

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