• Langenbecks Arch Surg · Apr 2011

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    Neurosurgical intensive care unit--essential for good outcomes in neurosurgery?

    • Josef M Lang, Jürgen Meixensberger, Andreas W Unterberg, Andreas Tecklenburg, and Joachim K Krauss.
    • Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany. lang.josef@mh-hannover.de
    • Langenbecks Arch Surg. 2011 Apr 1;396(4):447-51.

    IntroductionNeurosurgical intensive care units were increasingly agglomerated in large centralized interdisciplinary intensive care units in the last two decades. In the majority, these centralized interdisciplinary intensive care units were directed and managed by intensivists coming from anaesthesiology. We sought to review the evidence supporting neurosurgical intensive care as a highly specialized discipline resulting in benefits for the treated patients.ConclusionsIn general, neurosurgical and neurocritical intensive care has been associated with improved outcomes and reduced mortality rates, reduced length of intensive care stay, improved resource utilisation, decreased in-hospital mortality, and fiscal benefits.

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