Book Review: Head Injury Pathophysiology and Management of Severe Closed Injury
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13 Closed Head Injury
Closed head injury is the leading cause of death in young patients in industrialized countries. Patients who survive the initial injury are susceptible to sustaining secondary cerebral insults which are initiated by the release of endogenous neurotoxic inflammatory mediators. The presence of hypoxia and hypotension in the early resuscitative period represents the ‘‘key’’ parameter for induction...
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عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0310-057X,1448-0271
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x9902700320