Avoidance of hypotension: Conditio sine qua non of successful severe head-injury management
Avoidance of hypotension: Conditio sine qua non of successful severe head-injury management
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10.1097/00005373-199705001-00002
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1997-05-01
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Chesnut, RM
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Chesnut, RM
The practice of clinical medicine is characteristically based on a combination of clinical reports, laboratory investigations, and anecdotal experience. Unfortunately, a clear hierarchy of scientific validity has not been developed to guide the physician in weighting these various factors when deciding on a management strategy. With respect to severe head injury, this has resulted in a wide variation in documented clinical management approaches to the extent that, in some cases, patients may be treated with agents that have been shown to definitely be ineffective concomitantly with the lack of application of strategies that have a high likelihood of being useful.[1] In addition, in the interest of maintaining and furthering the cutting edge of treatment, academic centers tend to focus on developing new and evolving strategies for treatment rather than the more tedious but highly necessary job of empirically determining what aspects of our present courses of management are actually effective. Therefore, in 1996, we know more about the efficacy of free-radical inhibition than cerebral perfusion pressure management in determining outcome from traumatic brain injury (TBI).