Perioperative management of the pediatric patient with traumatic brain injury

Paediatric Anaesthesia

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 627-640

  Bhalla, Tarun ^a   Dewhirst, Elisabeth ^a   Sawardekar, Amod ^a   Dairo, Olamide ^a   Tobias, Joseph D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent; age; audit; child; general anesthesia; neuroanesthesia; neurosurgery; trauma; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; GLUCOSE;

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPEROSMOLARITY; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; ANTICONVULSANTS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRITICAL CARE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FLUID THERAPY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INFANT; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURES;

EID: 84861808716     PISSN: 11555645     EISSN: 14609592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9592.2012.03842.x     Document Type: Review

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