[Treatment of severe craniocerebral trauma]

As a result of increased traffic and enlarged leisure offers the number of severe head injuries climbed significantly in the last years. Due to the improvement of preclinic care, including the transport of severe head injured patients to a neurosurgical clinic as well as the availability of modern neuroradiological techniques such as CT and MRI and the performance of ICP-monitoring at an early stage the prognosis of severe head injured patients was significantly improved.