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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Decompressive Craniectomy"”.
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Decompressive craniectomy in children with traumatic brain injury
Although the conventional role of the operation was that of a salvage procedure when medical therapy failed in the treatment of raised intracranial pressure (ICP), two important concepts have emerged in the recent literature that appear to challenge that approach. In addition to the lack of …
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Outcomes of decompressive craniectomy in adults with severe traumatic brain injury: the Groote Schuur Hospital experience
… of this study was to assess outcome following decompressive craniectomy in adults with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a South African neurosurgical unit. Methods: During a 78 month period (January 2005 – June 2011), 76 patients that underwent decompressive craniectomy for TBI in an …
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Process of Care and Outcome of Critically Ill Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury
… further studies. Second, I evaluated whether decompressive craniectomy or barbiturate coma provides better value, in terms of health effects and costs, for the management of refractory intracranial hypertension following TBI. Decompressive craniectomy resulted in greater quality-adjusted life …
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Biomechanics of Cranial Decompression Procedures in Traumatic Brain Injury
Cranial decompression procedures such as decompressive craniectomy remove a portion of the skull to relieve elevated intracranial pressure in severe TBI cases. As these procedures can be seen as a mechanical, pressure vessel type problem, engineering methods such as finite element (FE) modelling …
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A profile of children with traumatic brain injury admitted to the Red Cross War Memorial Children?s Hospital Paediatric Intensive Care Unit in Cape Town, South Africa, between 2015 and 2019
… a Thiopentone infusion and 9 children (3.9%) a decompressive craniectomy. Common complications were post-extubation stridor (29/200 [14.5%]), hemiparesis (20/232 [8.6%]) and diabetes insipidus (15/232 [6.5%]). Median PICU stay was 3 (IQR 1-8.3) days, and hospitalization 11 (IQR 5-20) days. …
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The impact of barbiturate therapy in children with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)
… the average duration of ICU stay was 13 days. Decompressive craniectomy (DC) was used in 23% of patients. The mortality rate was 20.3%. Thiopentone use was associated with a reduction in median ICP and median mean arterial pressure (MAP), and no change in cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP). …
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Cranioplasty: Timing, Outcomes and Patient Experience
… to investigate the longitudinal trends of decompressive craniectomy following traumatic brain injury or stroke, analysing the timing of cranioplasty and whether these have an impact on revision or removal rates. Chapter 3 The third chapter analyses the results of a feasibility study that …
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Dynamics of cerebral fluids in patients suffering from hydrocephalus and pseudotumour cerebri
… NPH. I have also described the effect of decompressive craniectomy and of cranioplasty on CSF dynamics. In chapter 7, I have explored the CSF dynamics of PTCS and in particular: • The coupling between CSF pressure and Sagittal sinus pressure (SSp) in PTCS patients at baseline and during …