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Hyperbaric oxygen may reduce death rate after brain injury but does not seem to improve quality of life for survivors Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury.
There is no sufficient evidence about the effects of excitatory amino acid inhibiting drugs on traumatic brain injury, but more research is pending Excitatory Amino Acid Inhibitors for Traumatic Brain Injury.
Barbiturates appear not to reduce death or adverse neurological outcome rates for people with acute severe head injury. One in four people treated with barbiturates appears to have clinically significant hypotension, and this will offset any intracranial pressure lowering effect on cerebral perfusion pressure Barbiturates for Acute Traumatic Brain Injury.

Therapeutic hypothermia may reduce mortality and increase favourable neurological outcome in adults with traumatic brain injury Hypothermia Treatment for Traumatic Brain Injury.

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Hutchinson PJ, Corteen E, Czosnyka M, et al. Decompressive craniectomy in traumatic brain injury: the randomized multicenter RESCUEicp study (www.RESCUEicp.com). Acta Neurochir Suppl 2006;96():17-20. [PubMed]
Servadei F, Compagnone C, Sahuquillo J. The role of surgery in traumatic brain injury. Curr Opin Crit Care 2007 Apr;13(2):163-8. [PubMed]

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