Brain code and coma recovery: Aggressive management of cerebral herniation

Seminars in Neurology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 133-141

  Kalanuria, Atul A ^a   Geocadin, Romergryko G ^a   Püttgen, Hans A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

acute; cerebral; coma; herniation; management

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; MANNITOL; PENTOBARBITAL; PROPOFOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTERIAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BLURRED VISION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN TUMOR; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CINGULATE GYRUS; CODING; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIENCEPHALON; DRAIN; EXTERNAL VENTRICULAR DRAIN; FLUID THERAPY; HEADACHE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERCHLOREMIC ACIDOSIS; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRAVASCULAR HEMOLYSIS; LETHARGY; LUNG EDEMA; MESENCEPHALON; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; PARESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PHLEBITIS; PINEAL BODY; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SERUM OSMOLALITY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SWELLING; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UNCUS; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VOMITING;

EID: 84881088142     PISSN: 02718235     EISSN: 10989021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0033-1348961     Document Type: Article

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