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ArticleSaudi journal of anaesthesia2014

General intensive care for patients with traumatic brain injury: An update.

Tumul Chowdhury, Stephen Kowalski, Yaseen Arabi, Hari Hara Dash

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Article in Saudi journal of anaesthesia, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Tumul ChowdhuryDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Section of Critical Care, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
Stephen KowalskiDepartment of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Section of Critical Care, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
Yaseen ArabiDepartment of Intensive Care, King Abdul-Aziz Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Hari Hara DashDepartment of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurgaon, Haryana, India.
Fortis Memorial Research Institute · INKing Abdulaziz Medical City · SA

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundTraumatic brain injury (TBI) is a growing epidemic throughout the world and may present as major global burden in 2020. Some intensive care units throughout the world still have no access to specialized monitoring methods, equipments and other technologies related to intensive care management of these patients; therefore, this review is meant for providing generalized supportive measurement to this subgroup of patients so that evidence based management could minimize or prevent the secondary brain injury.

methodsTherefore, we have included the PubMed search for the relevant clinical trials and reviews (from 1 January 2007 to 31 March 2013), which specifically discussed about the topic.

resultsGeneral supportive measures are equally important to prevent and minimize the effects of secondary brain injury and therefore, have a substantial impact on the outcome in patients with TBI. The important considerations for general supportive intensive care unit care remain the prompt reorganization and treatment of hypoxemia, hypotension and hypercarbia. Evidences are found to be either against or weak regarding the use of routine hyperventilation therapy, tight control blood sugar regime, use of colloids and late as well as parenteral nutrition therapy in patients with severe TBI.

conclusionThere is also a need to develop some evidence based protocols for the health-care sectors, in which there is still lack of specific management related to monitoring methods, equipments and other technical resources. Optimization of physiological parameters, understanding of basic neurocritical care knowledge as well as incorporation of newer guidelines would certainly improve the outcome of the TBI patients.

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Evidencesecondary brain injurysupportive caretraumatic brain injury

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