Open AccessAugmented Creatinine Clearance in Traumatic Brain Injury
Author(s) -
Andrew Udy,
Robert Boots,
Siva Senthuran,
Janine Stuart,
Renae Deans,
Melissa Lassig-Smith,
Jeffrey Lipman
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181f7107d
Subject(s) - medicine , intensive care unit , creatinine , hypertonic saline , anesthesia , traumatic brain injury , confidence interval , mean arterial pressure , cerebral perfusion pressure , blood pressure , regimen , cerebral blood flow , surgery , heart rate , psychiatry
Hypertonic saline and/or norepinephrine infusion are routinely used to achieve a desired cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) in the management of traumatic brain injury (TBI). We hypothesized that creatinine clearances (CrCls) would be significantly augmented in this setting.