• DOI:10.1097/00006123-200110000-00016
Corpus ID: 43880412

Improving Clinical Outcomes from Acute Subdural Hematomas with the Emergency Preoperative Administration of High Doses of Mannitol: A Randomized Trial

@article{Cruz2001ImprovingCO,
  title={Improving Clinical Outcomes from Acute Subdural Hematomas with the Emergency Preoperative Administration of High Doses of Mannitol: A Randomized Trial},
  author={J. Cruz and G. Minoja and K. Okuchi},
  journal={Neurosurgery},
  year={2001},
  volume={49},
  pages={864-871}
}

J. Cruz, G. Minoja, K. Okuchi

Published 2001

Medicine

Neurosurgery

OBJECTIVETo evaluate clinical outcomes and postoperative physiological findings for comatose patients with acute subdural hematomas who received preoperative high-dose mannitol (HDM) versus conventional-dose mannitol treatment. METHODSOne hundred seventy-eight adult patients with non-missile, traumatic, acute, subdural hematomas were prospectively and randomly assigned to receive emergency, preoperative, intravenous HDM treatment (91 patients), compared with a control group treated with a lower… CONTINUE READING

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