Management of Acute Spinal Cord Injury in the Neurocritical Care Unit

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 339-347

  Evans, Linton T ^a   Lollis, Stuart Scott ^a   Ball, Perry A ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanical ventilation; Neurogenic shock; Spinal cord injury; Thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

AMINOPHYLLINE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ATROPINE; CAPTOPRIL; DOPAMINE; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FLUDROCORTISONE; GANGLIOSIDE GM1; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; HEPARIN; HYDRALAZINE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT; LABETALOL; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDODRINE; NALOXONE; NIFEDIPINE; NIMODIPINE; NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN; PHENYLEPHRINE; PLACEBO; PROSTAGLANDIN E2; TIRILAZAD; WARFARIN;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATELECTASIS; AUTONOMIC DYSREFLEXIA; B SCAN; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMITTENT PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION DEVICE; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THERAPY EFFECT; TRACHEOSTOMY; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CRITICAL CARE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84879781428     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: 15581349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2013.02.007     Document Type: Review

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