Decompressive craniectomy for severe traumatic brain injury: The relationship between surgical complications and the prediction of an unfavourable outcome

Injury

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1332-1339

  Honeybul, Stephen ^a   Ho, Kwok M ^b  

^a SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complications; Decompressive craniectomy; Injury severity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CRANIOPLASTY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYGROMA; INFECTION RISK; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SKULL DEFECT; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; SUDDEN DEATH; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AUSTRALIA; BRAIN INJURIES; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; COMPLICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INJURY SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SKULL FRACTURE; TIME;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SKULL FRACTURES; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84905491421     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2014.03.007     Document Type: Article

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