Surgical Treatment of Elevated Intracranial Pressure: Decompressive Craniectomy and Intracranial Pressure Monitoring.

Neurosurgery Clinics of North America

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 375-391

  El Ahmadieh, Tarek Y ^a   Adel, Joseph G ^a   El Tecle, Najib E ^a   Daou, Marc R ^a   Aoun, Salah G ^b   Nanney, Allan D ^a   Bendok, Bernard R ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompressive craniectomy; Elevated intracranial pressure; Intracranial hypertension hemicraniectomy; Intracranial mass; Intracranial pressure monitoring; Intraventricular catheter

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; MANNITOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

BLEEDING; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CATHETER INFECTION; CATHETER OCCLUSION; CATHETERIZATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DOSE RESPONSE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYGROMA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; INTRAVENTRICULAR CATHETER INSERTION; MENINGITIS; NEUROMONITORING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERAPEUTIC HYPERVENTILATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN INJURIES; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; STROKE;

EID: 84879788448     PISSN: 10423680     EISSN: 15581349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nec.2013.03.003     Document Type: Review

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