title: Head trauma.
abstract: The aim of this review is to provide the reader with the most commonly accepted principles for the management of head trauma patients. The initial clinical evaluation and resuscitation, radiological evaluation, monitoring, intracranial pressure and cerebral perfusion pressure management, brain protection, associated organ dysfunctions and complications, anaesthetic manage ment and the singularities of paediatric head trauma patients are described, either for the acute phase and the secondary phase of management.
authors.affiliation: Service Universitaire d'Anésthesie-Réanimation, CHR de la Citadelle, CHU de Liége, Belgium. vincent.bonhomme@chu.ulg.ac.be
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bonhomme
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hans
authors.forename: J Fr
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Brichant
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia; D002560:Cerebrovascular Circulation / Q000502:physiology; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D011859:Radiography; D012151:Resuscitation