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Drastic Dehydration as a Treatment of Intracranial Hypertension in Severe Head Injuries

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Intracranial Pressure IV

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As long ago as 1955, the analysis of metabolic changes in head injuries (hyponatremia by water retention) and of their causes (hypersecretion of A.D.H. and rise of Cortisol) led the French school (5) to put forward the idea of water restriction. Today some neurosurgeons (4) advise a daily amount of 1000 ml of water. In order to fight against a secondary brain edema we have sought a negative water balance by reducing the water intake to 250–500 ml per day.

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  1. A. L. Benabid
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  2. A. Baud
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  1. Leo M. Davidoff Department of Neurological Surgery, Albert Einstein, College of Medicine, Yeshiva University, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA

    Kenneth Shulman M.D.  & Anthony Marmarou Ph.D.  & 

  2. Medical College of Virginia, Division of Neurological Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1200 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA, 23298, USA

    J. Douglas Miller M.D., Ph.D., FRCS  & Donald P. Becker M.D.  & 

  3. Department of Neurology, New York University Medical Center, 550 First Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, USA

    Gerald M. Hochwald M.D.

  4. Universitätsklinikum Steglitz, Neurochirurgische Klinik und Poliklinik, Freie Universität Berlin, Hindenburgdamm 30, D-1000, Berlin 45, Germany

    Mario Brock

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Benabid, A.L., Baud, A., de Rougemont, J., Faccioli, F., Barge, M., Chirossel, J.P. (1980). Drastic Dehydration as a Treatment of Intracranial Hypertension in Severe Head Injuries. In: Shulman, K., Marmarou, A., Miller, J.D., Becker, D.P., Hochwald, G.M., Brock, M. (eds) Intracranial Pressure IV. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67543-0_20

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