Guidelines for the acute medical management of severe traumatic brain injury in infants, children, and adolescents.

TLDR: The goal with this document was to assimilate the scarce data that exist and present it within an evidencebased framework in order to provide treatment guidelines.

Abstract: Practice guidelines for physicians who treat children with brain trauma are long overdue. A significant barrier to producing guidelines has been the lack of data from well-designed, controlled studies that address each specific juncture of the acute treatment phase. Our goal with this document was to assimilate the scarce data that exist and present it within an evidencebased framework in order to provide treatment guidelines. With topics for which there were no evidence-based data, we worked as a group to achieve consensus and provided treatment options. To accomplish this, we assembled a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and researchers, keeping in mind that the presence of multiple perspectives would minimize bias. Although we recognize that this list is not complete, it represents a multidisciplinary group of clinicians and scientists with considerable expertise in key areas relevant to the project. We consider this work a “document in progress” and are committed to its ongoing revision and to incorporating additional areas of expertise that may not currently be represented. It is our goal that these guidelines be used to distinguish important areas of research, so that future revisions will contain more substantial evidence. A number of acknowledgments must be