External lumbar drainage for the management of refractory intracranial hypertension in pediatric severe traumatic brain injury: a retrospective single-center case series.

Objective: Guidelines for the management of pediatric severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) recommend external ventricular drainage for CSF drainage as a first-tier treatment in the intracranial pressure (ICP) pathway. However, ventriculostomy in children can sometimes be challenging because of the small size of the lateral ventricles. External lumbar drainage (ELD) may be a useful alternative; therefore, the authors analyzed the outcome of a cohort of pediatric patients who underwent ELD to manage intracranial hypertension (ICH).

Cerebral ischemia: a frequent complication of large traumatic epidural hematoma in infants.

Objective: Epidural hematoma (EDH) has rarely been studied specifically in infants. The objective of this study was to investigate the outcomes of patients aged < 18 months (infants) with EDH.

Methods: The authors conducted a single-center retrospective study of 48 infants aged less than 18 months who underwent an operation for a supratentorial EDH in the last decade.