Invasive intracranial pressure monitoring is a useful adjunct in the management of severe hepatic encephalopathy associated with pediatric acute liver failure

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kamat, Pradip ^a   Kunde, Sachin ^b   Vos, Miriam ^b   Vats, Atul ^a   Gupta, Nitika ^b   Heffron, Thomas ^c   Romero, Rene ^b   Fortenberry, James D ^a  

^a Division of Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Porter Memorial Hospital Denver   (United States)

Author keywords

acute liver failure; cerebral edema; children; intracranial monitoring

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; MANNITOL; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 84855670959     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: 19473893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0b013e31820ac08f     Document Type: Article

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