Refractory intracranial hypertension: The role of decompressive craniectomy

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1999-2008

  Smith, Martin ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN INJURY; COMPLICATION; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BRAIN INJURIES; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE;

EID: 85038130108     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: 15267598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000002399     Document Type: Article

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