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J Neurol Surg A Cent Eur Neurosurg 2017; 78(05): 478-487
DOI: 10.1055/s-0037-1599239
Review Article
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Guidelines for the Treatment of Head Injury in Adults

R. Firsching
1   Klinik für Neurochirurgie, Magdeburg, Germany
,
E. Rickels
2   Neurochirurg, Med. Versorgungszentrum am AKH Celle, Celle, Germany
,
U.M. Mauer
3   Neurochirurgischen Klinik, Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Ulm, Ulm, Germany
,
O.W. Sakowitz
4   Neurochirurgischen Klinik, Neurochirurgische Universitätsklinik, Heidelberg, Germany
,
M. Messing-Jünger
5   Chefärztin Kinderneurochirurgie, Asklepios Klinik Sankt Augustin, Germany
,
K. Engelhard
6   Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
,
P. Schwenkreis
7   Neurologische Universitätsklinik und Poliklinik, Berufsgenossenschaftliches Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil, Bochum, Germany
,
J. Linn
8   Ärztliche Direktorin Institut und Poliklinik für Neuroradiologie, Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden an der Technischen Universität Dresden, Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts des Freistaates Sachsen, Dresden, Germany
,
K. Schwerdtfeger   *
9   Klinik Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Klinik fÜr Neurochirurgie, Homburg/Saar, Germany
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20 November 2016

22 November 2016

Publication Date:
08 May 2017 (online)

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Abstract

The workshop of scientific medical faculties (Arbeitsgemeinschaft wissenschaftlicher medizinischer Fakultäten [AWMF]) of Germany has asked societies of specific medical disciplines to jointly publish guidelines on the treatment of diseases and injuries. On behalf of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie, its commission on guidelines initiated an interdisciplinary approach to publish guidelines on the treatment of head injury in adults. These guidelines were published in German by the AWMF in late 2015. Because these guidelines have received widespread attention in Germany and became fundamental for research in head injuries, we have translated the German version into English to make it accessible to the international scientific community.

Keywords

head injury - guidelines - adults

* On behalf of the Leitlinienkommission der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie


 

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