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. 2021 Mar 11:12:573237.
doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.573237. eCollection 2021.

Hyperventilation in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Has Something Changed in the Last Decade or Uncertainty Continues? A Brief Review

Daniel Agustín Godoy  1   2 , Rafael Badenes  3   4   5 , Chiara Robba  6   7 , Francisco Murillo Cabezas  8
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Hyperventilation in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Has Something Changed in the Last Decade or Uncertainty Continues? A Brief Review

Daniel Agustín Godoy et al. Front Neurol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: cerebral hypoxia; cerebral ischemia; hyperventilation; hypocapnia; intracranial hypertension; intracranial pressure; severe traumatic brain injury.

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Diagram about the mechanisms in which hyperventilation affects the brain pathophysiology.
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