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Controversies and evidence gaps in the early management of severe traumatic brain injury: back to the ABCs
Seif Tarek El-Swaify, Mazen A Refaat, Sara H Ali, Abdelrahman E Mostafa Abdelrazek, Pavly Wagih Beshay, Menna Kamel, Bassem Bahaa, Abdelrahman Amir, Ahmed Kamel Basha
DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2021-000859 Published 5 January 2022
Seif Tarek El-Swaify
1Department of surgery, Ain Shams University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
Mazen A Refaat
1Department of surgery, Ain Shams University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
Sara H Ali
1Department of surgery, Ain Shams University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
Abdelrahman E Mostafa Abdelrazek
1Department of surgery, Ain Shams University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
Pavly Wagih Beshay
1Department of surgery, Ain Shams University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
Menna Kamel
1Department of surgery, Ain Shams University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
Bassem Bahaa
1Department of surgery, Ain Shams University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
Abdelrahman Amir
1Department of surgery, Ain Shams University Hospital, Cairo, Egypt
Ahmed Kamel Basha
2Department of neurosurgery, Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt

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Controversies and evidence gaps in the early management of severe traumatic brain injury: back to the ABCs
Seif Tarek El-Swaify, Mazen A Refaat, Sara H Ali, Abdelrahman E Mostafa Abdelrazek, Pavly Wagih Beshay, Menna Kamel, Bassem Bahaa, Abdelrahman Amir, Ahmed Kamel Basha
Trauma Surg Acute Care Open Jan 2022, 7 (1) e000859; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2021-000859

Controversies and evidence gaps in the early management of severe traumatic brain injury: back to the ABCs
Seif Tarek El-Swaify, Mazen A Refaat, Sara H Ali, Abdelrahman E Mostafa Abdelrazek, Pavly Wagih Beshay, Menna Kamel, Bassem Bahaa, Abdelrahman Amir, Ahmed Kamel Basha
Trauma Surg Acute Care Open Jan 2022, 7 (1) e000859; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2021-000859
Controversies and evidence gaps in the early management of severe traumatic brain injury: back to the ABCs
Seif Tarek El-Swaify, Mazen A Refaat, Sara H Ali, Abdelrahman E Mostafa Abdelrazek, Pavly Wagih Beshay, Menna Kamel, Bassem Bahaa, Abdelrahman Amir, Ahmed Kamel Basha
Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open Jan 2022, 7 (1) e000859; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2021-000859
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- Abstract
- Introduction
- Prehospital transport
- The airway and cervical spine
- Breathing and ventilation
- Circulation: optimizing cardiovascular physiology
- Circulation: the optimal resuscitation fluid
- Circulation: utility of blood products
- Circulation: preinjury antithrombotics and their reversal
- Circulation: is tranexamic acid the solution we need?
- Difficult neurosurgical decisions
- Limitations of this review
- Conclusion
- Ethics statements
- Footnotes
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