Intracranial-pressure monitoring in traumatic brain injury [1]

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 368, Issue 18, 2013, Pages 1748-1752

  Rubiano, Andrés M ^a   Puyana, Juan C ^b  

^a Hospital Universitario de Neiva   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LETTER; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; INTENSIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; FEMALE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOTE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; RADIOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

EID: 84877284231     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1301076     Document Type: Letter

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