Evidence-Based Guidelines for the Management of Large Hemispheric Infarction: A Statement for Health Care Professionals from the Neurocritical Care Society and the German Society for Neuro-Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 146-164

  Torbey, Michel T ^a   Bösel, Julian ^b   Rhoney, Denise H ^c   Rincon, Fred ^d   Staykov, Dimitre ^e   Amar, Arun P ^f   Varelas, Panayiotis N ^g   Jüttler, Eric ⁿ   Olson, DaiWai ^h   Huttner, Hagen B ^e   Zweckberger, Klaus ^b   Sheth, Kevin N ⁱ   Dohmen, Christian ^j   Brambrink, Ansgar M ^k   Mayer, Stephan A ^l   Zaidat, Osama O ^m   Hacke, Werner ^b   Schwab, Stefan ^e  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNC Hamner Institute for Drug Safety Sciences   (United States)

^d THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

ⁱ YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^k OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

ⁿ Ostalb Klinikum Aalen   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Cerebral edema; Critical care management; Hemicraniectomy; Large hemispheric infarction; Large malignant stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CORTICOSTEROID; HEPARIN; MANNITOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANALGESIA; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BODY POSITION; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPRESSION STOCKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; CORE TEMPERATURE; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIGESTIVE TUBE; DURAPLASTY; DYSPHAGIA; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EVOKED BRAIN STEM AUDITORY RESPONSE; EXTUBATION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INSULIN TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERMITTENT PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION DEVICE; INTUBATION; LARGE HEMISPHERIC INFARCTION; LOBECTOMY; MORTALITY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS ENTEROGASTRIC TUBE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEDATION; STEROID THERAPY; THERAPEUTIC HYPERVENTILATION; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; CONSENSUS; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEUROLOGY; STANDARDS;

CONSENSUS; CRITICAL CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEUROLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 84921905622     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: 15560961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-014-0085-6     Document Type: Article

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