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: Brain Injury News and Information

Emergency fluid therapy shown not to improve outcome following traumatic brain injury

By Michael Kaplen

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The largest clinical trial to date of out-of-hospital hypertonic resuscitation shows it does not improve outcomes after traumatic brain injury. The disappointing results call into question the idea of emergency-response fluid intervention.

"While this does not preclude a benefit from such treatment were it administered differently," the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium investigators report, "at present there appears to be no compelling reason to adopt a practice of hypertonic fluid resuscitation for traumatic brain injury in the out-of-hospital setting."

The results are published in the October 6 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Full post as published by Brain Injury News and Information on October 16, 2010 (boomark / email).

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