Conventional treatments for severe head injury: are they effective, ineffective, or even harmful?
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Conventional treatments for severe head injury: are they effective, ineffective, or even harmful?
SINCE the middle of the 1990s, most neurotrauma centres have followed the guidelines or recommendations put forward by the US Traumatic Coma databank (1), the European brain trauma consortium (2) or some local protocols such as the Addenbrooke algorithm (3), for the treatment of severe brain trauma. Even though these guidelines differ in details, they include essentially the same therapeutic co...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0001-5172
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2007.01475.x