Decompressive Craniectomy in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury: Are the Usual Indications Congruent with Those Evaluated in Clinical Trials?

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 10-19

  Kramer, Andreas H ^a,b   Deis, Nathan ^a   Ruddell, Stacy ^a   Couillard, Philippe ^a,b   Zygun, David A ^c   Doig, Christopher J ^a   Gallagher, Clare ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cerebral edema; Decompressive craniectomy; Intracranial pressure; Midline shift; Pupillary light reflex; Transtentorial herniation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COHORT STUDIES; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84953311464     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: 15560961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-015-0232-8     Document Type: Article

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