ArticleSurgical neurology international2013
Pediatric traumatic brain injuries treated with decompressive craniectomy.
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- Decompressive craniectomy in pediatric patients with traumatic brain injury: an up to date comprehensive review.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026Pooled it
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- Impact of timing of decompressive craniectomy on outcomes in pediatric traumatic brain injury.Surgical neurology international · 2023Article
- Protocol for the multicentre prospective paediatric craniectomy and cranioplasty registry (pedCCR) under the auspices of the European Society for Paediatric Neurosurgery (ESPN).Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2022Article
- Treatment of pediatric patients with traumatic brain injury by Dutch Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS).PloS one · 2022Article
- [Pediatric multiple trauma].Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen · 2014Review
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Abstract
backgroundTraumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs in an estimated 80% of all pediatric trauma patients and is the leading cause of death and disability in the pediatric population. Decompressive craniectomy is a procedure used to decrease intracranial pressure by allowing the brain room to swell and therefore increase cerebral perfusion to the brain.
methodsThis is a retrospective study done at St. Mary's Medical Center/Palm Beach Children's Hospital encompassing a 3 year 7 month period. All the pediatric patients who sustained a TBI and who were treated with a decompressive craniectomy were included. The patients' outcomes were monitored and scored according to the Rancho Los Amigos Score at the time of discharge from the hospital and 6 months postdischarge.
resultsA total of 379 pediatric patients with a diagnosis of TBI were admitted during this time. All these patients were treated according to the severity of their injury. A total of 49 pediatric patients required neurosurgical intervention and 7 of these patients met the criteria for a decompressive craniectomy. All seven patients returned home with favorable outcomes.
conclusionThis study supports the current literature that decompressive craniectomy is no longer an intervention used as a last resort but an effective first line treatment to be considered.
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