Mortality and prehospital blood pressure in patients with major traumatic brain injury: Implications for the hypotension threshold

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 152, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 360-368

  Spaite, Daniel W ^a,b   Hu, Chengcheng ^a,c   Bobrow, Bentley J ^a,b,d   Chikani, Vatsal ^a,d   Sherrill, Duane ^c   Barnhart, Bruce ^a   Gaither, Joshua B ^a,b   Denninghoff, Kurt R ^a,b   Viscusi, Chad ^a,b   Mullins, Terry ^d   Adelson, P David ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES   (United States)

^e PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY RISK; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BLOOD PRESSURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85018350313     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2016.4686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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