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Traumatic Brain Injury: Risk Assessment and Perioperative Management

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Traumatic injury is the third leading cause of death in the USA. Traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury often occur in patients with polytrauma. Initial evaluation and resuscitation are critical for stabilization of patients with neurotrauma. Decompressive surgery and pharmacologic treatment that likely reduce secondary injury are used in hope to preserve injured tissue and neurologic function. However, it is still an ongoing effort to search new strategy and/or therapy that can improve long-term neurological outcome.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, Brain and Spinal Injury Center (BASIC), University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Jonathan Z. Pan

  2. Division of Neuro Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Lingzhong Meng

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

    Ansgar M. Brambrink

  2. Department of Anesthesiology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Jeffrey R. Kirsch

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Pan, J.Z., Meng, L. (2020). Traumatic Brain Injury: Risk Assessment and Perioperative Management. In: Brambrink, A., Kirsch, J. (eds) Essentials of Neurosurgical Anesthesia & Critical Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17410-1_10

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