Intensive care of head-injured patients

The intensive care and monitoring of patients with head injury is essentially the same among patients with mass lesions requiring surgery and those with no mass lesions. The surgical procedure should be looked upon as an adjuvant therapy to lower a rising intracranial pressure due to an expanding hematoma, macerated or infarcted brain. Apart form this all patients will have the same medical management and ICP recording will determine the extent of such therapy.