Pro/con debate: Should PaCO2 be tightly controlled in all patients with acute brain injuries?

Critical Care

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Go, Stephanie L ^a   Singh, Jeffrey M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ASSISTED VENTILATION; BLOOD CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOCAPNIA; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; NEUROMONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY ALKALOSIS; REVIEW; SEDATION; BLOOD; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN INJURIES; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; VENTILATOR-INDUCED LUNG INJURY;

BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARBON DIOXIDE; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; HUMANS; HYPOCAPNIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE; VENTILATOR-INDUCED LUNG INJURY;

EID: 84873311188     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc11389     Document Type: Review

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