Guidelines for the Acute Medical Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Infants, Children and Adolescents

• PCCM Guidelines Cover
  
• Foreward
  
• Chapter 1
  Introduction
• Chapter 2
  Trauma systems, pediatric trauma centers, and the neurosurgeon
• Chapter 3
  Prehospital airway management
• Chapter 4
  Resuscitation of blood pressure and oxygenation and prehospital brain-specific therapies for the severe pediatric traumatic brain injury patient
• Chapter 5
  Indications for intracranial pressure monitoring in pediatric patients with severe traumatic brain injury
• Chapter 6
  Threshold for treatment of intracranial hypertension
• Chapter 7
  Intracranial pressure monitoring technology
• Chapter 8
  Cerebral perfusion pressure
• Chapter 9
  Use of sedation and neuromuscular blockade in the treatment of severe pediatric traumatic brain injury
• Chapter 10
  The role of cerebrospinal fluid drainage in the treatment of severe pediatric traumatic brain injury
• Chapter 11
  Use of hyperosmolar therapy in the management of severe pediatric traumatic brain injury
• Chapter 12
  Use of hyperventilation in the acute management of severe pediatric traumatic brain injury
• Chapter 13
  The use of barbituates in the control of intracranial hypertension in severe pediatric traumatic brain injury
• Chapter 14
  The role of temperature control following sever pediatric traumatic brain injury
• Chapter 15
  Surgical treatment of pediatric intracranial hypertension
• Chapter 16
  The use of corticosteroids in the treatment of severe pediatric traumatic brain injury
• Chapter 17
  Critical pathway for the treatment of established intracranial hypertension in pediatric traumatic brain injury
• Chapter 18
  Nutritional support




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Last updated on June 24, 2003 by News and Publications