Emergency neurological life support: Airway, ventilation, and sedation

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages

  Seder, David B ^a   Riker, Richard R ^a   Jagoda, Andy ^b   Smith, Wade S ^c   Weingart, Scott D ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Airway protection; Intubation; Respiratory failure; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; DEXMEDETOMIDINE; ESMOLOL; ETOMIDATE; FENTANYL; KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; PANCURONIUM; PENTOBARBITAL; PROPOFOL; PROPYLENE GLYCOL; REMIFENTANIL; ROCURONIUM; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL; VECURONIUM;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; AIRWAY; ALGORITHM; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BREATHING; BRONCHOSPASM; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG METABOLISM; EARLY INTERVENTION; EMERGENCY NEUROLOGICAL LIFE SUPPORT; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EPILEPTIC STATE; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOCAPNIA; HYPOTENSION; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; KIDNEY INJURY; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; MYOPATHY; NASOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGENATION; PARALYSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPOFOL INFUSION SYNDROME; RAPID RESPONSE TEAM; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; RESPIRATORY ARREST; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESTLESSNESS; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RICHMOND AGITATION SEDATION SCALE; SEDATION; SEDATION AGITATION SCALE; SEIZURE THRESHOLD; SIDE EFFECT; STEROIDOGENESIS; THERAPEUTIC HYPERVENTILATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AIRWAY MANAGEMENT; ALGORITHMS; ANALGESIA; ANESTHETICS; BRAIN INJURIES; DEEP SEDATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84869217942     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: 15560961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-012-9753-6     Document Type: Review

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