Should pediatric neurosurgeons still manage neurotrauma today?
BACKGROUND
Neurotrauma remains a major global burden of injury, especially for young patients, and will consequently always be a condition that pediatric neurosurgeons are called upon to treat. However, the face of modern neurotrauma management is changing, presenting important challenges to today's pediatric neurosurgeons.


OBJECTIVE
This article summarizes some of the issues in neurotrauma facing clinicians whose responsibility it is to treat these children.


CONCLUSIONS
It is up to the individual neurosurgeon to familiarize him- or herself with the emerging literature on the modern management of pediatric neurotrauma.
Peter
Jonathan C
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Division of Neurosurgery, University of Cape Town, H53 OMB Groote Schuur Hospital Observatory, 7925 Cape Town, South Africa. Jonathan.Peter@uct.ac.za
D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D010372:Pediatrics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D020196:Trauma, Nervous System / Q000601:surgery*