ISICEM: Decompressive Craniectomy May Be Harmful
- ICU
- 28/03/2011
The use of decompressive craniectomy in patients with severe diffuse traumatic brain injury and refractory intracranial hypertension appears to lower...
READ MOREThe use of decompressive craniectomy in patients with severe diffuse traumatic brain injury and refractory intracranial hypertension appears to lower...
READ MOREProfessor and Chairman of the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Derek C. Angus is also Professor of Medicine and Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC. Dr. Angus is also the director of the Clinical Research, Investigation and Systems Modeling of Acute Illness (CRISMA) centre at the University...
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READ MOREResearchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a new sampling device that could prevent thousands of people worldwide from dying...
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