Nancy Carney

TL;DR: The scope and purpose of this work is to synthesize the available evidence and to translate it into recommendations, so that these recommendations be used by others to develop treatment protocols, which necessarily need to incorporate consensus and clinical judgment in areas where current evidence is lacking or insufficient.

TL;DR: For patients with severe traumatic brain injury, care focused on maintaining monitored intracranial pressure at 20 mm Hg or less was not shown to be superior to care based on imaging and clinical examination.

TL;DR: The goal with this document was to assimilate the scarce data that exist and present it within an evidencebased framework in order to provide treatment guidelines.