Prehospital management of severe traumatic brain injury: Concepts and ongoing controversies

Current Opinion in Anaesthesiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 556-562

  Boer, Christa ^a   Franschman, Gaby ^a   Loer, Stephan A ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

advanced life support; emergency medical teams; intracranial injury; normoventilation; prehospital airway management

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; ETOMIDATE; KETAMINE; MANNITOL; OXYGEN RADICAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HELICOPTER; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOCAPNIA; HYPOTENSION; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION CONTROL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THERAPEUTIC HYPERVENTILATION; THROMBOELASTOGRAPHY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHETICS; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FLUID THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPEROXIA; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 84866362443     PISSN: 09527907     EISSN: 14736500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e328357225c     Document Type: Review

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