Sticking metal in the head – is this a good thing?

oxicm Journals, Papers to be reviewed, ,

A Trial of Intracranial-Pressure Monitoring in Traumatic Brain Injury 

Randall M. Chesnut, M.D., Nancy Temkin, Ph.D., Nancy Carney, Ph.D., Sureyya Dikmen, Ph.D., Carlos Rondina, M.D., Walter Videtta, M.D., Gustavo Petroni, M.D., Silvia Lujan, M.D., Jim Pridgeon, M.H.A., Jason Barber, M.S.,
Joan Machamer, M.A., Kelley Chaddock, B.A., Juanita M. Celix, M.D., Marianna Cherner, Ph.D., and Terence Hendrix, B.A

Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Washington, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98104, USA

Published in The N Engl J Med. 2012 Dec 27;367(26):2471-81.

doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1207363. Epub 2012 Dec 12.

Controversial study, this. Would it have had ethical approval if it had been conducted in the US or the UK? Does it change practice given the findings? Find out the answers to these and more questions… this will be presented by James H on Friday 14th at the usual time.

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