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Trauma surgery

brain damage that develops after the initial head trauma from insults such as hypotension and hypoxia, and that worsens outcome.

In trauma surgery, secondary brain injury refers to brain damage that develops after the initial head trauma from insults such as hypotension and hypoxia, and that worsens outcome. This meaning comes from Chesnut (1993) in The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care.[1]

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Chesnut, R. M., Marshall, L. F., Klauber, M. R., Blunt, B. A., Baldwin, N., Eisenberg, H. M., Jane, J. A., Marmarou, A., & Foulkes, M. A. (1993). The Role of Secondary Brain Injury in Determining Outcome from Severe Head Injury. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 34(2), 216-222. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005373-199302000-00006

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