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Traumatic brain injury: an evidence-based review of management
Session Overview
Description
This session contains a link to the BJA Education article followed by a series of self assessment multiple choice questions.

The article will open in a new window or tab depending on your browser.

CPD credits are awarded by the RCoA for the time spent reading the article and successful completion of the self assessment questions. The pass mark is a score of 80% or more.

A CPD certificate can be printed from the Session Summary page at the end of the session.

Traumatic brain injury: an evidence-based review of management. Dinsmore, Judith. Continuing Education in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain, Volume 13, Issue 6, 189-195

• Traumatic brain injury is common and a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide
• Management is based on avoidance of secondary injury, maintenance of cerebral perfusion pressure, and optimization of cerebral oxygenation
• Evidence-based guidelines and management protocols help to guide target-driven care and are associated with better outcome
• Multimodality monitoring of the injured brain enables individualized therapeutic targets to be set to optimize patient management
• Patients with moderate or severe brain injury should be managed in a specialist neurosurgical centre