Decompressive craniectomy

Traumatic Brain Injury and Aeromedical Licensing

Published in Anthony N. Nicholson, The Neurosciences and the Practice of Aviation Medicine, 2017

Most acute management under these conditions is directed at improving and maintaining the blood supply to the brain and even increasing the blood pressure to maintain cerebral perfusion against an elevated intracranial pressure. Where maintenance of the cerebral perfusion pressure to a level of at least 60 mm Hg cannot be achieved, decompression of the cranial cavity, either by clot removal or extensive decompressive craniectomy, is to be considered. The latter now forms a significantly increasing part of the armamentarium of managing head injuries and is analogous to managing a so-called compartment syndrome in other parts of the body (Pompucci et al., 2007).

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Published in Expert Review of Medical Devices, 2021

Afaque Rafique Memon, Jianning Li, Jan Egger, Xiaojun Chen

Wu Chieh-Tsai et al. proposed a 3D deep learning framework to redesign cranial models. The author also investigated the performance in both simulated and clinical cases to verify its applicability [57]. Matzkin Franco et al. proposed a self supervised skull reconstruction in brain CT images with decompressive craniectomy reconstruction method consists of a CNN which operates on binary skull images obtained after pre-processing the CT. The researcher designed a virtual craniectomy procedure to simulate de-compressive craniectomy patients by removing bone flaps from specific areas [58].

Decompressive craniectomy

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