Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Evidence, Tricks, and Pi
This comprehensively updated second edition features major revisions, 24 new chapters and more than 40 new authors, reflecting both the advances and key challenges within the field. Offering a systematic guide to the management of children and adults with
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Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Terje Sundstrøm • Per-Olof Grände Teemu Luoto • Christina Rosenlund Johan Undén • Knut Gustav Wester Editors
Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Evidence, Tricks, and Pitfalls Second Edition
Editors Terje Sundstrøm Department of Neurosurgery Haukeland University Hospital Bergen Norway Department of Clinical Medicine University of Bergen Bergen Norway Teemu Luoto Department of Neurosurgery Tampere University Hospital Tampere Finland Johan Undén Department of Operation and Intensive Care Halmstad Hospital Halmstad Sweden
Per-Olof Grände Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Lund University Hospital Lund Sweden Christina Rosenlund Department of Neurosurgery Odense University Hospital Odense Denmark Knut Gustav Wester Department of Clinical Medicine K1 University of Bergen Bergen Norway
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Foreword I
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) constitutes a vast global health problem, impacting over 50 million people worldwide each year and costing the global economy $400 million USD. TBI has been described as “the most complex disease in our most complex organ.” We now recognize that it is a process, not an event. A disproportionate burden of death and disability exists in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Concerted efforts are required to address this global pandemic. Concerted efforts in the sense of both international collaborations and of interactions between basic neuroscience and clinical research. This second edition of the textbook Manage
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