Controlled decompression for the treatment of severe and extremely severe head injury

• 作 者: YuhaiWang;ChunliWang;LikunYang;SangCai;XuejianCai;JirongDong;JiandongZhang;JunZhu;
• 机 构: Deputy Director of Department, Chief Physician, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Department of Neuros
• 出 处: 2014全国神经损伤大会暨第三届天坛全国神经创伤学术研讨会
• 发表日期: 2014年期

　　Patients with severe and extremely severe brain injury are often treated with fast direct decompression surgery to alleviate brain swelling, however, intraoperative acute brain encephalocele and brain swelling, and postoperative cerebral infarction often occur.The aim of this study was to assess the therapeutic effects of controlled decompression surgery.The study included 128 patients with severe or extremely severe traumatic brain injury who were randomized to either a treatment group that received controlled decompression surgery (n =64) or a control group that received conventional decompressive craniectomy.