Mannitol versus hypertonic saline for brain relaxation in patients undergoing craniotomy – A Cochrane Systematic Review

Background: Patients with brain tumour usually suffer from increased pressure in the skull due to swelling of brain tissue. A swollen brain renders surgical removal of the brain tumour difficult. To ease surgical tumour removal, measures are taken to reduce brain swelling, often referred to as brain...

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Main Authors: Hemanshu Prabhakar, Gyaninder P. Singh, Mani Kalaivani, Vidhu Anand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2017-08-01
Series:Journal of Neuroanaesthesiology and Critical Care
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/jnacc-jnacc-8.17