Intracranial pressure monitoring in severe head injury: Compliance with Brain Trauma Foundation guidelines and effect on outcomes: A prospective study

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1248-1254

  Talving, Peep ^a   Karamanos, Efstathios ^a   Teixeira, Pedro G ^a   Skiada, Dimitra ^a   Lam, Lydia ^a   Belzberg, Howard ^a   Inaba, Kenji ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain herniation; Brain Trauma Foundation guidelines; Intracranial pressure monitoring; Mortality; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN HERNIA; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HERNIA; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 84887104882     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.7.JNS122255     Document Type: Article

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