Management of traumatic brain injury: Some current evidence and applications

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 949, 2004, Pages 650-653

  Guha, Arpan ^a  

^a WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 PHOSPHONOMETHYLPIPECOLIC ACID; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; CLONIDINE; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXANABINOL; DEXTRAN; DIHYDROERGOTAMINE; MANNITOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METOPROLOL; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; PROPOFOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SUXAMETHONIUM; THIOPENTAL;

AIRWAY; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN SIZE; BREATHING; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOTHERMIA; HYPOVOLEMIA; HYPOXIA; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LUND THERAPY; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; META ANALYSIS; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; NEUROPROTECTION; ONCOTIC PRESSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BARBITURATES; BRAIN INJURIES; CLINICAL TRIALS; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; DIURETICS, OSMOTIC; HUMANS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; HYPOTHERMIA; MANNITOL; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKADE; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL;

EID: 9144249728     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2004.019570     Document Type: Review

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