Trial of decompressive craniectomy for traumatic intracranial hypertension

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 375, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1119-1130

  Hutchinson, P J ^a   Kolias, A G ^a   Timofeev, I S ^a   Corteen, E A ^a   Czosnyka, M ^a   Timothy, J ^c   Anderson, I ^c   Bulters, D O ^d   Belli, A ^f   Eynon, C A ^e   Wadley, J ^g   Mendelow, A D ⁱ   Mitchell, P M ^j   Wilson, M H ^h   Critchley, G ^k   Sahuquillo, J ⁿ   Unterberg, A ^o   Servadei, F ^p   Teasdale, G M ^l   Pickard, J D ^a   Menon, D K ^b   Murray, G D ^m   Kirkpatrick, P J ^a   more..

^a Division of Neurosurgery   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (United States)

^e SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^g ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^j ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^k Sussex University Hospitals   (United Kingdom)

^l UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^o UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^p UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEATH; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISABILITY SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TRAUMATIC INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEGETATIVE STAGE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BRAIN INJURIES; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; DISABLED PERSON; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84988826769     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1605215     Document Type: Article

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