In a study published Dec. 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at UW working with colleagues at six hospitals in Bolivia and Ecuador. found that intracranial pressure monitoring – the standard of care for severe traumatic brain injury – showed no significant difference than a treatment based on imaging and clinical examination.
“Within this field, this is a game changer,” said Randall Chesnut, a UW Medicine neurosurgeon at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle and principal investigator of the study. “We’ve been treating a number not a physiology.”
Watch a three-minute video with Dr. Randall Chesnut describing the study.