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A Bedside, Single Burr Hole Approach to Multimodality Monitoring in Severe Brain Injury
Published on: March 26, 2019
Elevated intracranial pressure management
H Selim Karabekir1, Canan Balci
1Department of Neurosurgery, School of Medicine, Afyon Kocatepe University, Afyon, Turkey. Tel. +212 90532 282882. Fax. +212 90272 2172029.
Abstract:
The treatment strategy for increased intracranial pressure (ICP) management includes decisions on head and body position, hypothermia, ventilation, anesthetics, osmotic drugs and surgical procedures. We can treat sudden increases in ICP using osmotic agents, some anesthetics and short episodes of mild hyperventilation. Propofol seems to be suitable for sedation of the increased ICP patients. Surgical decompression of the cranium seems to improve the outcome of the younger patients (below 50 years old), especially children.
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