Postoperative outcomes following closed head injury and craniotomy for evacuation of hematoma in patients older than 80 years: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 234-245

  Lau, Darryl ^a   El Sayed, Abdulrahman M ^b,c,d   Ziewacz, John E ^a,e,f   Jayachandran, Priya ^a   Huq, Farhan S ^a   Zamora Berridi, Grettel J ^a   Davis, Matthew C ^a   Sullivan, Stephen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Craniotomy; Hematoma; Intracranial hemorrhage; Morbidity; Trauma; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CELLULITIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CRANIOTOMY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DELIRIUM; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC REHABILITATION; HEAD INJURY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; PSEUDOTUMOR; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; SENESCENCE; SEPSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855391798     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.7.JNS11396     Document Type: Article

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