Reduced brain/serum glucose ratios predict cerebral metabolic distress and mortality after severe brain injury

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 311-319

  Kurtz, Pedro ^a   Claassen, Jan ^a   Schmidt, J Michael ^a   Helbok, Raimund ^a   Hanafy, Khalid A ^a   Presciutti, Mary ^a   Lantigua, Hector ^a   Connolly, E Sander ^a   Lee, Kiwon ^a   Badjatia, Neeraj ^a   Mayer, Stephan A ^a  

^a Milstein Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Cerebral microdialysis; Coma; Glucose; Glucose transport; Metabolism

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; INSULIN; LACTIC ACID; PYRUVIC ACID;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD GLUCOSE METER; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN SERUM GLUCOSE RATIO; CEREBRAL METABOLIC DISTRESS; CEREBRAL MICRODIALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMATOSE PATIENT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; INFUSION PUMP; INSULIN INFUSION; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MICRODIALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEUROMONITORING; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; COMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; INSULIN; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84890533071     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: 15560961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-013-9919-x     Document Type: Article

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