Accepted for/Published in: JMIR Research Protocols
Date Submitted: Dec 15, 2023
Open Peer Review Period: Dec 15, 2023 - Feb 9, 2024
Date Accepted: Jan 31, 2024
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Innovative solutions for post-craniectomy patients: a protocol for a scoping review
ABSTRACT
Background:
Decompressive craniectomy (DC) is a widely used procedure to alleviate high ICP. These multidisciplinary teams have designed and implemented external medical prototypes to improve patient life quality and avoid complications following DC in patients awaiting CP, including 3D printing and plaster prototypes, when available.
Objective:
This scoping review aims to understand the extent and type of evidence about innovative external prototypes for patients who underwent decompressive craniectomy (DC) while awaiting cranioplasty (CP).
Methods:
This scoping review will use the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology for scoping reviews. This scoping review will include non-invasive medical devices for adult patients who underwent decompressive craniectomy while waiting for cranioplasty. The search strategy will be implemented in MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, Scielo, Scopus, and WHO Global Health Index Medicus. Patent documents were also allocated in Espacenet, Google Patents, and WIPO.
Results:
This scoping review will serve as a baseline to provide evidence for multidisciplinary teams currently designing these non-invasive innovations to reduce the risk of associated complications after DC, hoping that more cost-effective models can be implemented, especially in middle-income and low-income countries.
Conclusions:
This scoping review will serve as a baseline to provide evidence formultidisciplinary teams currently working on designing these non-invasive innovations to reduce the risk of associated complications after DC, hoping that more cost-effective models can be implemented, especially in middle-income and low-income countries.
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