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A Bedside, Single Burr Hole Approach to Multimodality Monitoring in Severe Brain Injury
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Assessing Acute Brain Injury after Rapid Reduction of PaCO2 using Plasma Biomarkers in Patients Undergoing ECMO
Sung-Min Cho1,2, Aaron M Gusdon3
1Division of Neuroscience Critical Care, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, Anesthesiology, and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. csungmi1@jhmi.edu.
Neurocritical Care
|February 15, 2024
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