The relationship between serum sodium and intracranial pressure when using hypertonic saline to target mild hypernatremia in patients with head trauma

Critical Care

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Wells, Diana L ^a   Swanson, Joseph M ^b   Wood, G Christopher ^b   Magnotti, Louis J ^b   Boucher, Bradley A ^b   Croce, Martin A ^b   Harrison, Charles G ^b   Muhlbauer, Michael S ^b   Fabian, Timothy C ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPERNATREMIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BLOOD; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG EFFECTS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERNATREMIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; SODIUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867359305     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc11678     Document Type: Article

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