Long-Term outcome following decompressive craniectomy: An inconvenient truth?

Current Opinion in Critical Care

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 97-104

  Honeybul, Stephen ^a   Ho, Kwok M ^b   Gillett, Grant R ^c  

^a SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

decompressive craniectomy; ethics; malignant middle cerebral artery stroke; neurotrauma; randomized controlled trials; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL OUTCOME; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; REVIEW; STROKE PATIENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; COMPLICATION; DISABILITY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85044203867     PISSN: 10705295     EISSN: 15317072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCC.0000000000000481     Document Type: Review

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