Pneumonia in patients with severe head injury: Incidence, risk factors, and outcomes ; Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 358-363

  Wang, Kuo Wei ^a   Chen, Han Jung ^a   Lu, Kang ^a   Liliang, Po Chou ^a   Huang, Chun Kai ^a   Tang, Pi Lien ^b   Tsai, Yu Duan ^a   Wang, Hao Kuang ^a   Liang, Cheng Loong ^a  

^a I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b FOOYIN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Pneumonia incidence; Risk factor; Severe head injury; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STOMACH INTUBATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APACHE; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESIS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84873627674     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.10.JNS127     Document Type: Review

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