Cerebral blood flow, brain tissue oxygen, and metabolic effects of decompressive craniectomy

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 478-484

  Lazaridis, Christos ^a,b   Czosnyka, Marek ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brain tissue oxygenation; Cerebral blood flow; Decompressive craniectomy; Flow velocity; Microdialysis; Pulsatility index; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN TISSUE OXYGEN; CEREBELLUM HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR RESERVE CAPACITY; CRANIOPLASTY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

OXYGEN;

BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; OXYGEN;

EID: 84873029708     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: 15560961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-012-9685-1     Document Type: Review

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