Key points A 36-year-old Black woman presented to the emergency department in a coma (Glasgow Coma Scale 4) after an unwitnessed fall in the bathroom. She was healthy before the fall and had had 2 ...

Thus, considering the above background, we designed a clinical trial named prospective, randomized evaluation of therapeutic decompressive craniectomy in severe traumatic brain injury with mass ...

It is isointense on the T1-weighted scan and slightly bright on the T2-weighted scan. This is a an acute epidural hematoma. The patient subsequently underwent emergency decompressive surgery.

From the Neurosurgical Service at the Boston City Hospital. First read at the Annual Meeting of the New England Surgical Society, September 30, 1933, at Boston, and subsequently at a meeting of ...

Once a patient returns to the neurological intensive care unit (NICU) after surgery, nursing care is aimed at preventing increased ICP and providing supportive care. In the intensive care unit ...

Over the past three decades there has been considerable interest in the use of decompressive craniectomy in the management of neurological emergencies. An increasing number of observational cohort ...

Some scenarios that can result in head injuries are: car crashes sports collisions falls violent altercations blunt force traumas Head injuries can result in a scalp hematoma or blood clot.

We describe here a new strategy for the treatment of stroke, through the inhibition of NAALADase (N-acetylated-α-linked-acidic dipeptidase), an enzyme responsible for the hydrolysis of the ...

Emergency decompressive craniectomy was completed in addition to multiple follow-up medical treatments. The patient recovered after 4 months with reduced motor function in her left upper extremity.