Monitoring the injured brain in the intensive care unit.

Monitoring the injured brain in the intensive care unit.

The primary aim of managing patients with acute brain injury in the intensive care unit is to minimise secondary injury by maintaining cerebral perfusion and oxygenation. The mechanisms of secondary injury are frequently triggered by secondary insults, which may be subtle and remain undetected by th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gupta A
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2002-07-01
Series:Journal of Postgraduate Medicine
Subjects:
Brain Injuries
complications
diagnosis
Brain Ischemia
etiology
Cerebrovascular Circulation
physiology
Electrophysiology
Female
Glasgow Coma Scale
Human
Injury Severity Score
Intensive Care
methods
Intensive Care Units
Intracranial Hypertension
Male
Monitoring
Physiologic
Oximetry
Prognosis
Risk Assessment
Sensitivity and Specificity
Spectrophotometry
Infrared
Ultrasonography
Doppler
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