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24 - Specific intracranial problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2009

Ken Hillman  and
Gillian Bishop
Ken Hillman
Affiliation:
University of New South Wales, Sydney
Gillian Bishop
Affiliation:
Liverpool Health Services
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Clinical Intensive Care and Acute Medicine , pp. 475 - 508
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2004

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Bullock, R., Chesnut, R. M., Clifton, G.et al.Guidelines for the management of severe head injury. Journal of Neurotrauma 13 (1996): 639–731Google Scholar
Carnall, D.Head injuries. British Medical Journal 320 (2000): 1348Google Scholar
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Gibbons, K. J.Science and surveys in the treatment of head injuries. Critical Care Medicine 28 (2000): 256–7Google Scholar
Kleist-Welch Guerra, W., Piek, J. and Gaab, M.-R.Decompressive craniectomy to treat intracranial hypertension in head injury patients. Intensive Care Medicine 25 (1999): 1327–9Google Scholar
Maas, A. I. R., Dearden, M., Teasdale, G. M.et al.EBIC guidelines for the management of severe head injury in adults. European Brain Injury Consortium. Acta Neurochirurgica 139 (1997): 286–94Google Scholar
Munch, E., Horn, P., Schurer, L., Piepgras, A., Paul, T. and Schmiedek, P.Management of severe traumatic brain injury by decompressive craniectomy. Neurosurgery 47 (2000): 315–23Google Scholar
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Hinson, V. K. and Tyor, W. R.Update on viral encephalitis. Current Opinion in Neurology 14 (2001): 369–74Google Scholar
Rosenstein, N. E., Perkins, B. A., Stephens, D. S., Popovic, T. and Hughes, J. M.Medical progress: Meningoccal disease. New England Journal of Medicine 344 (2001): 1378–88Google Scholar
Browne, T. R. and Holmes, G. L.Epilepsy. New England Journal of Medicine 344 (2001): 1145–51Google Scholar
Chapman, M. G., Smith, M. and Hirsch, N. P.Status epilepticus. Anaesthesia 56 (2001): 648–59Google Scholar
Durham, D.Management of status epilepticus. Critical Care and Resuscitation 1 (1999): 344–53Google Scholar
Heafield, M. T. E.Managing status epilepticus. British Medical Journal 320 (2000): 953–4Google Scholar
Nashef, L. and Brown, S.Epilepsy and sudden death. Lancet 348 (1997): 1324–25Google Scholar
Newton, D. E. F.Electrophysiological monitoring of general intensive care patients. Intensive Care Medicine 25 (1999): 350–2Google Scholar
Plum, F. and Posner, J. B. (eds.) The Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma. 3rd edn. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Co, 1980
Teasdale, G. and Jennett, B.Assessment of coma and impaired consciousness – a practical scale. Lancet (1977) ⅱ: 81–4Google Scholar
Lazar, N. M., Shemie, S., Webster, G. C. and Dickens, B. M.Bioethics for clinicians: 24 Brain death. Canadian Medical Association Journal 164 (2001): 833–6Google Scholar
Wijdicks, E. F. M.Current concepts: the diagnosis of brain death. New England Journal of Medicine 344 (2001): 1215–21Google Scholar
Wijdicks, E. F. M.Brain death worldwide: accepted fact but no global consensus in diagnostic criteria. Neurology 58 (2002): 20–5Google Scholar
Edgren, E., Hedstrand, U., Kelsey, S., Sutton-Tyrrell, K. and Safar, P.BRCT 1 Study Group. Assessment of neurological prognosis in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest. Lancet 343 (1994): 1055–9Google Scholar
Grubb, N. R., Elton, R. A. and Fox, K. A. A.In-hospital mortality after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Lancet 346 (1995): 417–21Google Scholar
Brott, T. and Bogousslavsky, J.Treatment of acute ischemic stroke. New England Journal of Medicine 343 (2000): 710–22Google Scholar
Dorsch, N. W. C.Therapeutic approaches to vasospasm in subarachnoid haemorrhage. Current Opinion in Critical Care 8 (2002): 128–33Google Scholar
Hacke, W., Stingele, R., Steiner, T., Schuchardt, V. and Schwab, S.Critical care of acute ischemic stroke. Intensive Care Medicine 21 (1995): 856–62Google Scholar
Schievink, W.Intracranial aneurysms. New England Journal of Medicine 336 (1997): 28–40Google Scholar
Gijn, J. and Rinkel, G. J. E.Subarachnoid haemorrhage: diagnosis, causes and management. Brain 124 (2001): 249–78Google Scholar
Bullock, R., Chesnut, R. M., Clifton, G.et al.Guidelines for the management of severe head injury. Journal of Neurotrauma 13 (1996): 639–731Google Scholar
Carnall, D.Head injuries. British Medical Journal 320 (2000): 1348Google Scholar
Facco, E. and Munari, M.The role of evoked potentials in severe head injury. Intensive Care Medicine 26 (2000): 998–1005Google Scholar
Gibbons, K. J.Science and surveys in the treatment of head injuries. Critical Care Medicine 28 (2000): 256–7Google Scholar
Kleist-Welch Guerra, W., Piek, J. and Gaab, M.-R.Decompressive craniectomy to treat intracranial hypertension in head injury patients. Intensive Care Medicine 25 (1999): 1327–9Google Scholar
Maas, A. I. R., Dearden, M., Teasdale, G. M.et al.EBIC guidelines for the management of severe head injury in adults. European Brain Injury Consortium. Acta Neurochirurgica 139 (1997): 286–94Google Scholar
Munch, E., Horn, P., Schurer, L., Piepgras, A., Paul, T. and Schmiedek, P.Management of severe traumatic brain injury by decompressive craniectomy. Neurosurgery 47 (2000): 315–23Google Scholar
Naredi, S., Olivecrona, M., Lindgren, C., Ostlund, A. L., Grande, P. O. and Koskinen, L. O. D.An outcome study of severe traumatic head injury using the “Lund therapy” with low-dose prostacyclin. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 45 (2001): 402–6Google Scholar
Hinson, V. K. and Tyor, W. R.Update on viral encephalitis. Current Opinion in Neurology 14 (2001): 369–74Google Scholar
Rosenstein, N. E., Perkins, B. A., Stephens, D. S., Popovic, T. and Hughes, J. M.Medical progress: Meningoccal disease. New England Journal of Medicine 344 (2001): 1378–88Google Scholar
Browne, T. R. and Holmes, G. L.Epilepsy. New England Journal of Medicine 344 (2001): 1145–51Google Scholar
Chapman, M. G., Smith, M. and Hirsch, N. P.Status epilepticus. Anaesthesia 56 (2001): 648–59Google Scholar
Durham, D.Management of status epilepticus. Critical Care and Resuscitation 1 (1999): 344–53Google Scholar
Heafield, M. T. E.Managing status epilepticus. British Medical Journal 320 (2000): 953–4Google Scholar
Nashef, L. and Brown, S.Epilepsy and sudden death. Lancet 348 (1997): 1324–25Google Scholar
Newton, D. E. F.Electrophysiological monitoring of general intensive care patients. Intensive Care Medicine 25 (1999): 350–2Google Scholar

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