Left or right, up or down: A case for positioning of unconcious head-injured patients
Nursing care activities have been proved to cause increases in intracranial pressure (ICP) which could be detrimental to the patient's health. Because positioning is one of the activities that causes the greatest pressure changes it was evaluated in this study. Cumulative increases also occur w...
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Main Author: | M. Hugo (Author) |
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1992-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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