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Article: Maximizing Survival from Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Applying Guidelines to Clinical Practice: Part I.
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- Same-Day Surgery
- Article date:
- September 28, 2009
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Maximizing Survival from Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Applying Guidelines to Clinical Practice: Part I
Head injury can mean many things, from a bump on the forehead to an open wound with extruding brain. This review focuses on patients with severe closed head injuries. Like many other areas of medicine, we have good evidence for what is the best care. The principles may seem simple, but applying them is not always easy. The challenge is to deliver optimal care consistently and continuously, from the scene, during transport, in the emergency department, through the operating room and ICU. This is the first of a two-part series on severe traumatic brain injury, ...