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In the United States the commonest cause of death between the ages of 1 and 40 is trauma. Some 70% of these deaths are due to head injuries. The conventional methods of head injury care are resuscitation, operation if needed, and observation. The latter is mainly to check for signs of rising intracranial pressure which may signal hematoma, cerebral edema, or hydrocephalus.
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Byrnes, D.P., Ducker, T.B. (1980). Continuous Measurement of Intracranial Pressure in 127 Severe Head Injuries. In: Shulman, K., Marmarou, A., Miller, J.D., Becker, D.P., Hochwald, G.M., Brock, M. (eds) Intracranial Pressure IV. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67543-0_17
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