Decompression surgery for severe traumatic brain injury (TBI): A long-term, single-centre experience

Anaesthesia Critical Care and Pain Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 79-82

  Quintard, Hervé ^a   Lebourdon, Xavier ^a   Staccini, Pascal ^b   Ichai, Carole ^a  

^a University Hospital of Nice University of Nice Sophia Antipolis   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NICE   (France)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Decompression surgery; Prognosis; Quality of life; Refractory intracranial hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MOOD DISORDER; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SLEEP DISORDER; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INJURIES; INJURY SCALE; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84979818970     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23525568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.accpm.2014.09.002     Document Type: Article

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