Intensive care unit management of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-9

  Fugate, Jennifer E ^a   Rabinstein, Alejandro A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Cerebral edema; Delayed cerebral ischemia; Endovascular coiling; Hydrocephalus; Intensive care; Intracranial hemorrhage; Management; Neurocardiogenic injury; Neurocritical care; Neurogenic pulmonary edema; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Surgical clipping; Vasospasm

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; ESMOLOL; ETIRACETAM; FLUDROCORTISONE ACETATE; GLUCOSE; HYDRALAZINE; INSULIN; LABETALOL; NICARDIPINE; NIMODIPINE; NORADRENALIN; PARACETAMOL; PHENYLEPHRINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANEXAMIC ACID; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; VERAPAMIL;

ANEURYSM CLIP; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; FEVER; FLUID THERAPY; GLYCEMIC CONTROL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYPOTENSION; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUNG EDEMA; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STUNNED HEART MUSCLE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

BRAIN EDEMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; SEIZURES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VASOSPASM, INTRACRANIAL;

EID: 84857624329     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-011-0230-y     Document Type: Article

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