Is it time for an autoregulation-oriented therapy in head-injured patients?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2526-2527

  Caricato, Anselmo ^a   Pitoni, Sara ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

cerebral autoregulation; cerebral perfusion pressure; continuous monitoring; hemodynamics; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN BLOOD VOLUME; BRAIN PERFUSION; EDITORIAL; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPOCAPNIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84864248208     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318256b9af     Document Type: Editorial

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