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Guidelines for the acute phase management of patients with severe TBI and polytrauma are lacking, and worldwide variability in clinical practice has been documented.
This consensus provides 16 expert-agreed recommendations for the acute management of severe adult TBI patients with polytrauma, focusing on hemorrhage control and prevention of secondary brain injury.
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Supports clinician decision-making with a first-24-hour algorithm balancing bleed control and brain protection; fills a guideline gap and leaves high-quality evidence open.
The acute phase management of patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and polytrauma represents a major challenge. Guidelines for the care of these complex patients are lacking, and worldwide variability in clinical practice has been documented in recent studies. Consequently, the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) decided to organize an international consensus conference regarding the monitoring and management of severe adult TBI polytrauma patients during the first 24 hours after injury. A modified Delphi approach was adopted, with an agreement cut-off of 70%. Forty experts in this field (emergency surgeons, neurosurgeons, and intensivists) participated in the online consensus process. Sixteen recommendations were generated, with the aim of promoting rational care in this difficult setting.
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Picetti et al. (2019) conducted a review in Severe adult traumatic brain injury with polytrauma. WSES consensus guidelines for monitoring and management was evaluated on Generation of consensus recommendations with >70% agreement. An international panel of 40 experts reached consensus on 16 recommendations for the acute monitoring and management of severe adult traumatic brain injury patients with polytrauma in the first 24 hours.
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