Dr. Randall Chesnut and his team of researchers visted Latin America and studied the way they treat patients with traumatic brain injury. Lower and middle income countries do not use the intracranial pressure monitors and have similar patient outcomes. Dr. Chesnut's findings are, in a word, groundbreaking. Read more here:

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The Global NeuroTrauma research investigators for this study are as
follows:

Principal Investigator - R.M. Chesnut,

Co-Investigators -- C. Rondina, W. Videtta, N. Temkin, S. Dikmen, N. Carney, G. Petroni, S. Lujan,

Study Staff: J. Pridgeon, J. Barber, J. Machamer, K. Chaddock, J. Celix, M.
Cherner, T. Hendrix;

Site Investigators --

Bolivia: V.S.Alanis Mirones, University Hospital San Juan De Dios, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, G. La Fuente Zerain, Hospital Japones, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, A. Lavadenz Cuentas, Viedma Hospital, Cochabamba, R. Merida Maldonado, San Juan de Dios Hospital, Tarija, Country coordinator, La Paz:
F. Sandi Lora,

Ecuador: E.M. Jibaja Vega, Espejo Hospital, Quito;

Site Coordinators and Outcomes Assessors - Carlos Alcala, Diego Barahona, Erick Garcia, Marcos Mello Moreira, Juan Pablo Merida, Diego Monzon, Maria Isabel Navajas Krutzfeldt, Vianka Valle, Saul Zavala, Reina Alvarado, Alejandra Anziano, Rafael Camargo, Rita Isabel Cervantes Zambrana, Maria Luisa Chavez, Rosmery Gross, Luiz Guilherme Calderom, Fernando Justiniano, Maria Julia Maida, Viviana Nathaly Medranda Pisco, Arturo Flor Morquera, Carlos Eduardo Rocha, Jesusa Torres, Katty Alexandra Trelles Vasquez, Maria del Carmen Valverde, Elisa Vilca, and Veronica Vinzia

Observation Site Investigators --
Brazil: A.L. Eiras Falcao,
Uraguay: C. Puppo, and
Columbia: R. Romero Figueroa

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