Outcomes and complications of intracranial pressure monitoring in acute liver failure: A retrospective cohort study

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1157-1167

  Karvellas, Constantine J ^a   Fix, Oren K ^b   Battenhouse, Holly ^c   Durkalski, Valerie ^c   Sanders, Corron ^d   Lee, William M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

acetaminophen; acute liver failure; cerebral edema; fulminant hepatic failure; intracranial hypertension; intracranial pressure monitoring

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MANNITOL; PARACETAMOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACUTE LIVER FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FEMALE; HEPATIC COMA; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LIVER GRAFT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; THERAPY;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84899485687     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000144     Document Type: Article

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