Cranial decompression with a burr hole is the drainage of an acute extra-axial haematoma (extradural and/or subdural) in the neurologically deteriorating patient. Brain compression due to an extradural haematoma (EDH), or other expanding intracranial haematoma, may be surgically remediable but making the diagnosis can be difficult.
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