Deciding Under Uncertainty: The Case of Refractory Intracranial Hypertension

Deciding Under Uncertainty: The Case of Refractory Intracranial Hypertension

A challenging clinical conundrum arises in severe traumatic brain injury patients who develop intractable intracranial hypertension. For these patients, high morbidity interventions such as surgical decompression and barbiturate coma have to be considered against a backdrop of uncertain outcomes inc...

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Main Author: Christos Lazaridis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Neurology
Subjects:
traumatic brain injury
shared decision making
intracranial hypertension
intracranial pressure
decompressive craniectomy
expected utility
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2020.00908/full

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