Surgical Treatment of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Switzerland: Results from a Multicenter Study

Journal of Neurological Surgery, Part A: Central European Neurosurgery

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 36-45

  Rossi Mossuti, Frédéric ^a   Fisch, Urs ^b   Schoettker, Patrick ^c   Gugliotta, Marinella ^a   Morard, Marc ^d   Schucht, Philippe ^e   Schatlo, Bawarjan ^a,g   Levivier, Marc ^c   Walder, Bernhard ^f   Fandino, Javier ^a  

^a CANTONAL HOSPITAL AARAU   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d Centre Hospitalier du Valais Romand   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^f GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

neurosurgery; severe traumatic brain injury; standardized documentation; standardized operative procedures; surgical management and monitoring strategies

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CLINICAL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DETERIORATION; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PATIENT MONITORING; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINUS VENOSUS; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWITZERLAND; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; AGED; BIOASSAY; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, ACUTE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOTOMY; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, ACUTE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWITZERLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84954324442     PISSN: 21936315     EISSN: 21936323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1563556     Document Type: Article

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