A decompressive craniectomy may be necessary after a traumatic brain injury, to relieve pressure on the brain. It is a life-saving emergency treatment that involves removing a part of the skull.

Traumatic acute subdural hematomas frequently warrant surgical evacuation by means of a craniotomy (bone flap replaced) or decompressive craniectomy (bone flap not replaced). Craniectomy may preven ...

Rather than make a case that there is a right or wrong answer regarding decompressive craniectomy for MCI, we put our findings into a clinical decision algorithm to help frame the question for ...

Brain swelling, or cerebral edema, is a medical emergency. Learn about the evidence-based treatments doctors use to reduce ...

Decompressive craniectomy appears to be beneficial in patients with severe deep intracerebral hemorrhage, new research suggested.. Although the results just missed statistical significance ...

Decompressive craniectomy (DC) ... Sinking skin flap syndrome and paradoxical herniation after hemicraniectomy for malignant hemispheric infarction. Stroke 41, 560–562 (2010).

Her daughter made it through one decompressive craniectomy, a surgical procedure to remove a portion of the skull and alleviate pressure, her mom said, but was still in critical condition.. Claire ...

Decompressive Craniectomy and TBI. 2016-09-22. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMdo005087 Save. Permissions ...

One approach is a decompressive craniectomy, which involves leaving a section of the skull out – which can be as large as 13cm in length – in order to protect the patient from brain swelling ...

Trial ofdecompressive craniectomy for traumatic intracranial hypertension [Abstract].DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1605215 Livesay S, et al. (2014). Evidence-based nursingreview of craniectomy care.

A decompressive craniectomy is performed when the pressure in a person's brain becomes dangerously high and doctors are unable to lower the pressure using drugs or other treatments, Hutchinson said.