High dose barbiturates in non-traumatic brain swelling.
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High dose barbiturates in non-traumatic brain swelling.
High dose barbiturates were used to treat intracranial hypertension in 15 patients with nontraumatic brain lesions; (3 hypertensive hemorrhage, 4 subarachnoid hemorrhage, 5 infarction, 2 global anoxia-ischemia and 2 encephalitis). All had persistently raised intracranial pressure (ICP) while being treated with aggressive conventional therapy. The addition of barbiturates caused an initial lower...
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عنوان ژورنال: Stroke
سال: 1983
ISSN: 0039-2499,1524-4628
DOI: 10.1161/01.str.14.5.830