Table 1.
Key scientific approaches for further improvement of neurocritical care in traumatic brain injury
Pharmacological neuroprotection | Drugs blocking specific secondary injury mechanisms |
Drugs stimulating reparative mechanisms | |
Monitoring of the brain injury process | Biomarkers of specific secondary injury mechanisms |
Refined/novel neuroimaging methods | |
Neurorepair | Axonal regeneration |
Neurogenesis/stem cell therapy | |
Neurorehabilitation/plasticity |