Decompressive Craniectomy in Diffuse Traumatic Brain Injury

James Cooper, D.; V. Rosenfeld, Jeffrey; Murray, Lynnette; M. Arabi, Yaseen; R. Davies, Andrew; D’Urso, Paul; Kossmann, Thomas; Ponsford, Jennie; Seppelt, Ian; L. Reilly, Peter; Wolfe, Rory

doi:10.1056/nejmoa1102077

Public

Decompressive Craniectomy in Diffuse Traumatic Brain Injury

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Mar 25, 2011

Authors:

D. James Cooper

Jeffrey V. Rosenfeld

Lynnette Murray

Abstract

BACKGROUND: It is unclear whether decompressive craniectomy improves the functional outcome in patients with severe traumatic brain injury and refractory raised intracranial pressure. METHODS: From December 2002 through April 2010, we randomly assigned 155 adults with severe diffuse traumatic brain ...

Subject

Decompressive craniectomy

Medicine

Traumatic brain injury

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!