WSES consensus conference guidelines: monitoring and management of severe adult traumatic brain injury patients with polytrauma in the first 24 hours

Abstract The acute phase management of patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and polytrauma represents a major challenge. Guidelines for the care of these complex patients are lacking, and worldwide variability in clinical practice has been documented in recent studies. Consequently, the...

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Main Authors: Edoardo Picetti, Sandra Rossi, Fikri M. Abu-Zidan, Luca Ansaloni, Rocco Armonda, Gian Luca Baiocchi, Miklosh Bala, Zsolt J. Balogh, Maurizio Berardino, Walter L. Biffl, Pierre Bouzat, Andras Buki, Marco Ceresoli, Randall M. Chesnut, Osvaldo Chiara, Giuseppe Citerio, Federico Coccolini, Raul Coimbra, Salomone Di Saverio, Gustavo P. Fraga, Deepak Gupta, Raimund Helbok, Peter J. Hutchinson, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Takahiro Kinoshita, Yoram Kluger, Ari Leppaniemi, Andrew I. R. Maas, Ronald V. Maier, Francesco Minardi, Ernest E. Moore, John A. Myburgh, David O. Okonkwo, Yasuhiro Otomo, Sandro Rizoli, Andres M. Rubiano, Juan Sahuquillo, Massimo Sartelli, Thomas M. Scalea, Franco Servadei, Philip F. Stahel, Nino Stocchetti, Fabio S. Taccone, Tommaso Tonetti, George Velmahos, Dieter Weber, Fausto Catena
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:World Journal of Emergency Surgery
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13017-019-0270-1