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Open Access
01-02-2011 | Poster presentation
Update on the RESCUEicp decompressive craniectomy trial
Authors:
PJ Hutchinson, AG Kolias, I Timofeev, E Corteen, M Czosnyka, DK Menon, JD Pickard, PJ Kirkpatrick
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2011
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Excerpt
The fundamental pathophysiological process following head injury is the development and propagation of an escalating cycle of brain swelling, increase in intracranial pressure (ICP), reduction in blood supply and oxygen delivery, energy failure and further swelling, enhancing brain injury and poor outcome. The aim of the RESCUEicp trial (Randomised Evaluation of Surgery with Craniectomy for Uncontrollable Elevation of ICP) is to provide class I evidence as to whether decompressive craniectomy is effective for the management of patients with raised and refractory ICP following traumatic brain injury (TBI). …
