Intracranial pressure monitoring in childhood meningitis with coma: A national survey of neurosurgeons in the United States

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Odetola, Folafoluwa O ^a,b   Clark, Sarah J ^b   Lamarand, Kara E ^b   Davis, Matthew M ^b,c   Garton, Hugh J ^d  

^a Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^b North Campus Research Complex   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

childhood; critical illness; hospitalization; intracranial pressure; meningitis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMATOSE PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MENINGITIS; NEUROSURGERY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGEON; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEUROSURGERY; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 81155139121     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: 19473893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e31820abc83     Document Type: Article

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