Balancing the potential risks and benefits of out-of-hospital intubation in traumatic brain injury: The intubation/hyperventilation effect

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 732-736

  Gaither, Joshua B ^a   Spaite, Daniel W ^a   Bobrow, Bentley J ^a,b   Denninghoff, Kurt R ^a   Stolz, Uwe ^a   Beskind, Daniel L ^a   Meislin, Harvey W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Maricopa Integrated Healthcare System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN PERFUSION; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; EARLY INTERVENTION; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOCAPNIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTUBATION; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VASOCONSTRICTION;

BRAIN INJURIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; HYPERVENTILATION; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84870251314     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2012.06.017     Document Type: Article

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