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Barbiturates and hyperventilation during intracranial hypertension

DOI

23

Citations

0

References

1993

Year

Penelope T. Louis, Jan Goddard‐Finegold, Marvin A. Fishman, JOHNNY R. GRIGGS, Fernando Stein, John P. Laurent
Critical Care Medicine

Abstract

These studies suggest that barbiturate administration in this model of intracranial hypertension was no more effective in reducing increased intracranial pressure than hyperventilation alone.