Erschienen in:
18.05.2017 | Editorial
Announcing CURRENT CONCEPTS: Exploring What is New, Provocative, and Controversial in Neurocritical Care
verfasst von:
Stephan A. Mayer
Erschienen in:
Neurocritical Care
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Ausgabe 3/2017
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Excerpt
Neurocritical care is all about pushing boundaries in what is fundamentally one of the last great frontiers of medicine. We have been witness to remarkable advances in the science and technology of brain resuscitation. Mortality from severe brain injury due to stroke and trauma has steadily declined over the past two decades. This is despite the relative paucity of class 1 evidence to support many of the treatments and approaches that we use. Indeed, neurocritical care is a vast and complicated “evidence-free zone.” …