The morbidity and mortality of surgery for traumatic brain injury in geriatric patients: a study of over 100  000 patient cases - Haddad AF, DiGiorgio AM, Lee YM, Lee AT, Burke JF, Huang MC, Dhall SS, Manley GT, Tarapore PE.

BACKGROUND: Geriatric patients have the highest rates of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)-related hospitalization and death. This contributes to an assumption of futility in aggressive management in this population. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news