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WSES consensus conference guidelines: monitoring and management of severe adult traumatic brain injury patients with polytrauma in the first 24 hours
- Source :
- Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Repositorio U. El Bosque, Universidad El Bosque, instacron:Universidad El Bosque, World journal of emergency surgery, World Journal of Emergency Surgery, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2019), World Journal of Emergency Surgery : WJES
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- The acute phase management of patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and polytrauma represents a major challenge. Guidelines for the care of these complex patients are lacking, and worldwide variability in clinical practice has been documented in recent studies. Consequently, the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) decided to organize an international consensus conference regarding the monitoring and management of severe adult TBI polytrauma patients during the first 24 hours after injury. A modified Delphi approach was adopted, with an agreement cut-off of 70%. Forty experts in this field (emergency surgeons, neurosurgeons, and intensivists) participated in the online consensus process. Sixteen recommendations were generated, with the aim of promoting rational care in this difficult setting.
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Delphi Technique
Monitoring
Traumatic brain injury
Bleeding
Hemorrhage
Management
Polytrauma
Consensus Development Conferences as Topic
lcsh:Surgery
Poison control
Guidelines as Topic
Review
Suicide prevention
Occupational safety and health
03 medical and health sciences
Traumatic brain injury, Polytrauma, Bleeding, Hemorrhage, Monitoring, Management
0302 clinical medicine
Injury prevention
Brain Injuries, Traumatic
medicine
Humans
Monitoring, Physiologic
Lesiones traumáticas del encéfalo
business.industry
Multiple Trauma
Head injury
lcsh:Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid
Human factors and ergonomics
030208 emergency & critical care medicine
lcsh:RD1-811
lcsh:RC86-88.9
medicine.disease
Hipotensión
3. Good health
Patient Care Management
General Surgery
Emergency medicine
Emergency Medicine
Surgery
Human medicine
Encefalopatía traumática crónica
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17497922
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Repositorio U. El Bosque, Universidad El Bosque, instacron:Universidad El Bosque, World journal of emergency surgery, World Journal of Emergency Surgery, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2019), World Journal of Emergency Surgery : WJES
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ab73efc9335364c6a992df9fd3870c22