The neurological wake-up test increases stress hormone levels in Patients with severe traumatic brain injury

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 216-222

  Skoglund, Karin ^a   Enblad, Per ^a   Hillered, Lars ^a   Marklund, Niklas ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ACTH; Catecholamines; Cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP); Cortisol; Epinephrine; intracranial pressure (ICP); Neurolog ical wake up test; Norepinephrine; Propofol; Sedation

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN; PENTOBARBITAL; PROPOFOL; STRESS HORMONE;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG INFUSION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGICAL WAKE UP TEST; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEDATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; DEEP SEDATION; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOREPINEPHRINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALIVA; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84055190016     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31822d7dbd     Document Type: Article

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