Actual evidence for neuromonitoring-guided intensive care following severe traumatic brain injury

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 141, Issue JULY, 2011, Pages

  Stover, John F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Critical care; Evidence; Monitoring; Pathophysiology; Secondary brain damage; Secondary insults; Treatment

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLYCEROL; LACTIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID;

ANALGESIA; ANEMIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CANNULATION; CELL FUNCTION; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPILEPTIC DISCHARGE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERVENTILATION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; JUGULAR VENOUS OXYGEN SATURATION; MICRODIALYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NERVE CELL; NEUROMONITORING; OXIDATIVE STRESS; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN SUPPLY; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; OXYGENATION; PARTIAL TISSUE OXYGEN PRESSURE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEDATION; SPREADING CORTICAL DEPRESSION; THERMAL DIFFUSION FLOWMETRY; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT DURATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION; VASOSPASM; BRAIN INJURY; DECISION MAKING; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN INJURIES; DECISION MAKING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC;

EID: 80052208575     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2011.13245     Document Type: Review

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