Guidelines for the acute medical management of severe traumatic brain injury in infants, children, and adolescents. Chapter 13. The use of barbiturates in the control of intracranial hypertension in severe pediatric traumatic brain injury

Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2003 Jul;4(3 Suppl):S49-52.

Authors

P David Adelson¹, Susan L Bratton, Nancy A Carney, Randall M Chesnut, Hugo E M du Coudray, Brahm Goldstein, Patrick M Kochanek, Helen C Miller, Michael D Partington, Nathan R Selden, Craig R Warden, David W Wright; American Association for Surgery of Trauma; Child Neurology Society; International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery; International Trauma Anesthesia and Critical Care Society; Society of Critical Care Medicine; World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies

Affiliation

¹ University of Pittsburgh/Children's Hospital, USA.

PMID: 12847349

No abstract available

Publication types

Guideline
Practice Guideline
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Adolescent
Barbiturates / therapeutic use*
Brain Injuries / complications*
Child
Child, Preschool
Critical Care / methods
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Intracranial Hypertension / drug therapy*
Intracranial Hypertension / etiology
Intracranial Hypertension / prevention & control
Intracranial Pressure / drug effects

Substances

Barbiturates