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Prompted by the extensive experience of Bruce et al. W and Marshall et al. (14), we induced barbiturate coma in 27 brain trauma patients with intracranial pressure (ICP) raised to more than 25 torr for more than 15 minutes, and unresponsive to dexamethasone, mannitol, furosemide and moderate hyperventilation, as in a boy exhibiting Lundberg waves and pronounced ICP reactions to nursing (Fig. 1).
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Wiedemann, K. (1983). Thiopentone in the Treatment of Severe Head Injury: Is Raised Intracranial Pressure the Sole Indication for Its Use?. In: Wiedemann, K., Hoyer, S. (eds) Brain Protection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69175-1_18
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