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11.2 - Major trauma and raised intracranial pressure

from Chapter 11 - Emergency airway management in special circumstances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2015

Andrew Burtenshaw
Affiliation:
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Jonathan Benger
Affiliation:
University of the West of England, Bristol
Jerry Nolan
Affiliation:
Royal United Hospital, Bath
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Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland. (2006) Recommendations for the Safe Transfer of Patients with Brain Injury. London: Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland.Google Scholar
Jansen, J.O., Thomas, R., Loudon, M.A. et al. (2009) Damage control resuscitation for patients with major trauma. Brit Med J; 338: 1436–40.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Sperry, J.L., Minei, J.P., Frankel, H.L. et al. (2008) Early use of vasopressors after injury: caution before constriction. J Trauma Inj Infect Crit Care; 64(1): 914.Google ScholarPubMed
Stochetti, N., Maas, A.I.R. (2014) Traumatic intracranial hypertension. N Engl J Med; 370: 2121–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
The Intensive Care Society. (2011) Guideline for the Transport of the Critically Ill Adult, 3rd edn. London: The Intensive Care Society.Google Scholar
Filonovsky, Y., Miller, P., Kao, J. (2010) Ketamine should not be used as an induction agent for intubation in patients with head injury. CJEM; 12(2): 154–7.Google Scholar
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. (2014) Head Injury: Triage, Assessment, Investigation and Early Management of Head Injury in Infants, Children and Adults. Available at: http://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/CG176 (accessed November 2014).Google Scholar
Committee on Trauma of American College of Surgeons. (2012) Advanced Trauma Life Support Provider Manual, 9th edn. Chicago: Committee on Trauma of American College of Surgeons.Google Scholar
Dawes, R., Thomas, G.O.R. (2009) Battlefield resuscitation. Curr Opin Crit Care; 15(6): 527–35.Google Scholar

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