Surgical intervention for severe head injury: Ethical considerations when performing life-saving but non-restorative surgery

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 153, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1105-1110

  Honeybul, Stephen ^a   Ho, Kwok M ^c   Lind, Christopher R P ^a,c   Gillett, Grant R ^b  

^a ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Decompressive craniectomy; Ethics; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEUROTRAUMATOLOGY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79955932941     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-011-0974-9     Document Type: Article

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