Mauro Oddo

Championing individualised neurointensive care

• Neurological examination
• Imaging
• Monitoring

The RCTs of therapies in Neuro ICU have shown no effect on pt prognosis

EUROTHERM Study

A Trial of Intracranial-Pressure Monitoring in Traumatic Brain Injury

So what do you do??

Evidence for Health Decision Making — Beyond Randomized, Controlled Trials

Severe traumatic brain injury: targeted management in the intensive care unit.

Fluid therapy in neurointensive care patients: ESICM consensus and clinical practice recommendations.

But it may be that we are not finding the solution/therapy due to the heterogeneity of TBI

Diverse effects of hypothermia therapy in patients with severe traumatic brain injury based on the computed tomography classification of the traumatic coma data bank.

A response to the Chestnut trial –

A Method of Managing Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in the Absence of Intracranial Pressure Monitoring: The Imaging and Clinical Examination Protocol.

There is therefore an unsurprising degree of variation in how TBIs are managed.

Variation in monitoring and treatment policies for intracranial hypertension in traumatic brain injury: a survey in 66 neurotrauma centers participating in the CENTER-TBI study.

• Outcome was more favourable in pts treated in aggressive centres

Multi Modal Monitoring (MMM)

Multimodal monitoring approach improves ability to detect hypoperfusion in the injured brain

Accuracy of brain multimodal monitoring to detect cerebral hypoperfusion after traumatic brain injury.

New paradigm – quantitative brain function monitoring

Electroencephalography as a Prognostic Tool after Cardiac Arrest.

Summary