Determination of neurologic prognosis and clinical decision making in adult patients with severe traumatic brain injury: A survey of canadian intensivists, neurosurgeons, and neurologists

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1086-1093

  Turgeon, Alexis F ^a,b   Lauzier, François ^a,b   Burns, Karen E A ^c   Meade, Maureen O ^d   Scales, Damon C ^c   Zarychanski, Ryan ^e   Moore, Lynne ^a,b   Zygun, David A ^f   McIntyre, Lauralyn A ^g,h   Kanji, Salmaan ^g   Hébert, Paul C ^g,h   Murat, Valérie ^a   Pagliarello, Giuseppe ^h   Fergusson, Dean A ^g,h  

^a Université Laval   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^g OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

critical care medicine; healthcare survey; neurologic prognosis; traumatic brain injury; withdrawal of life sustaining therapies

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIST; NEUROSURGEON; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BRAIN INJURIES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PHYSICIANS; PROGNOSIS; QUEBEC;

EID: 84875811138     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318275d046     Document Type: Review

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