Intracranial pressure rescued by decompressive surgery after traumatic brain injury

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 375, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1183-1184

  Shutter, Lori A ^a   Timmons, Shelly D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DETERIORATION; DISABILITY SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRAIN INJURIES; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84988874473     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1609722     Document Type: Editorial

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