Would decompressive craniectomy really bring the hope to severe traumatic brain injury?

In September of this year, the results of the Randomised Evaluation of Surgery with Craniectomy for Uncontrollable Elevation of Intracranial Pressure (RESCUEicp) trial—an international multicenter randomized control trial (RCT) by Hutchinson and colleagues was reported in the New England Journal of Medicine (1).