Inaccurate Early Assessment of Neurological Severity in Head Injury
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Inaccurate early assessment of neurological severity in head injury.
Intubation, which requires sedation and myorelaxants, may lead to inaccurate neurological evaluation of severely head-injured patients. Aims of this study were to describe the early clinical evolution of traumatic brain injured (TBI) patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU), to identify cases of over-estimated neurological severity, and to quantify the risk factors for this over-estimatio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurotrauma
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0897-7151,0000-0000
DOI: 10.1089/0897715041953803