A lack of oxygen which can cause damage to the brain. This can result when blood flow is reduced.

Medicine used to treat infections in the blood, urine, lungs and other areas of the body.

Preventing or delaying the clotting of the blood.

An abnormal neurologic condition in which language function is defective or absent relating to an injury to the cerebral cortex of the brain. The deficiency may be receptive, in which language is not [..]

A blood test that determines how well a patient is breathing and how well the lungs are working by measuring the oxygen, carbon dioxide and pH of the blood.

A very small tube (catheter) put into an artery so that blood pressure can be measured at all times. Blood can be removed from this catheter for lab testing.

(angiogram)

Fracture or break at the base of the skull.

Death caused by complete and irreversible loss of function of the entire brain, including the brain stem. The heart may continue as long as the breathing machine (ventilator) is in place, but without [..]

A stiff, solid dressing formed with plaster of Paris or fiberglass around a limb or other body part to keep it from moving during healing.