Head CT is of limited diagnostic value in critically ill patients who remain unresponsive after discontinuation of sedation.

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Published in BMC Anesthesiol on May 07, 2009

Authors

Jay S Balachandran1, Mairaj Jaleel, Manu Jain, Niraj Mahajan, Ravi Kalhan, Rajesh Balagani, Helen K Donnelly, Eugene Greenstein, Gökhan M Mutlu

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA. g-mutlu@northwestern.edu.

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