Guidelines for the acute medical management of severe traumatic brain injury in infants, children, and adolescents. Chapter 19. The role of anti-seizure prophylaxis following severe pediatric traumatic brain injury

Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2003 Jul;4(3 Suppl):S72-5.

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 P 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: 12847355

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Publication types

Guideline
Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

Acute Disease
Adolescent
Anticonvulsants / therapeutic use*
Brain Injuries / complications*
Child
Child, Preschool
Critical Care / methods
Epilepsy, Post-Traumatic / drug therapy
Epilepsy, Post-Traumatic / etiology
Epilepsy, Post-Traumatic / prevention & control*
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn

Substances

Anticonvulsants