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Neurosurgery began with the treatment of head injuries. Around the world we find skulls with healed trephinations, some of them several thousand years old (Fig. 3.5.1). The treatment of patients with head injuries consisted mostly of war surgery performed by general surgeons until the end of World War II. Industrialisation and in particular the increase in motor-driven vehicles after World War II were accompanied by a rapid increase in head injuries. The neurosurgical community met that need. Shortly after World War II neurosurgeons specialised in trauma care and developed the first Intensive Care Units in the 1950s and early 1960s in various countries. They started to perform tracheostomies, recommended drugs to treat spasticity, and also started to cool patients with an acute midbrain syndrome and increased body temperature. Mechanical ventilators became more and more readily available in the 1960s in most hospitals and also central i. v. lines and gastric tubes to apply parenteral and enteral nutrition. This brought anaesthesiologists onto the scene as major players in the treatment and management of head trauma victims. Together with neurosurgeons they developed regimens for treatment.

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  1. Abteilung für Neurochirurgie, Chirurgische Universitätsklinik Rostock, 10 08 88, 18057, Rostock, Germany

    Jürgen Piek

  2. Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Catholic University Medical School, Largo A. Gemelli 8, 00168, Rome, Italy

    Luca Massimi

  3. Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Catholic University Medical School, Largo A. Gemelli 8, 00168, Rome, Italy

    Antonio Chiaretti & Orazio Genovese

  4. Istituto di Neurochirurgica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Policlinico Gemelli, Largo Gemelli 8, 00168, Rome, Italy

    Concezio Di Rocco

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Bogenhausen Academic Teaching Hospital, Technical University of Munich, Englschalkinger Straße 77, 81925, München, Germany

    Christianto B. Lumenta

  2. Istituto di Neurochirurgica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Policlinico Gemelli, Largo Gemelli 8, 00168, Rome, Italy

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  3. Institute of Health Science and Technology, Faculties of Engineering, Science and Medicine, Aalborg University, Fredrik Bajers vej 7 D3, 9220, Aalborg East, Denmark

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  4. Department of Neurosurgery, University of Groningen Medical Centre UMCG, 30.001, 9700 RB, Groningen, Netherlands

    Jan Jakob A. Mooij

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Piek, J., Massimi, L., Chiaretti, A., Genovese, O., Di Rocco, C. (2010). Trauma. In: Lumenta, C., Di Rocco, C., Haase, J., Mooij, J. (eds) Neurosurgery. European Manual of Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79565-0_8

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