Surgery for Traumatic Brain Injury : The Basics and Pitfalls

Abstract

  Despite its arsenal of traditional techniques and devices, surgery for traumatic brain injury (TBI) could well be the last field standing against the global storm of minimal invasiveness and other innovations that is rapidly transforming modern medicine. In the world of TBI, neurosurgeons are still required to deal with various unexpected circumstances on the fly, a situation that had once been considered the norm in most surgical procedures but has since been supplanted by modern-era procedures.

  Still, new waves have recently been observed in this field, such as the new approach for acute traumatic coagulopathy and the paradigm shift of systemic trauma treatment in conjunction with interventional radiology that are rapidly prevailing in the field of emergency medicine, and thus major treatment breakthroughs can soon be expected for TBI.