Intensive care and traumatic brain injury after the introduction of a treatment protocol: A prospective study

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 46-55

  Schirmer Mikalsen, K ^a   Moen, K G ^a,b   Skandsen, T ^a,b   Vik, A ^a,b   Klepstad, P ^a,b  

^a TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; SERUM ALBUMIN; SODIUM;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FATALITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INFANT; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYDRIASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SURVIVAL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; GOALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84871007072     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2012.02785.x     Document Type: Article

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