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de estos enfermos en unidades llamadas de respiracin artificial o unidades respiratorias [1]. Como otras unidades precursoras de los cuidados intensivos neurolgicos pueden citarse,
adems, las salas de anestesia para el cuidado postoperatorio de
los pacientes neuroquirrgicos, las unidades de cuidado intensi-
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REVISTA DE NEUROLOGA no se identifica necesariamente con las opiniones expresadas por los autores en esta seccin.
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procederes para el tratamiento de muchos de estos pacientes, algunos de ellos con un doble papel, es decir, diagnstico y teraputico (radiologa intervencionista), y que a su vez no estn exentos
de complicaciones que potencialmente pueden ser fatales (hemorragia intracerebral).
Sin nimo de caer en el intrusismo, es muy probable que algu-
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