The standard of care for decades has been surgery, which was designed to provide drainage by drilling a burr hole into the skull or performing a craniotomy, the surgical removal of a portion of ...

The FINISH trial by Rahul Raj and colleagues offers key insights into the surgical management of chronic subdural haematoma (CSDH) by evaluating the efficacy of irrigation during burr-hole drainage.1 ...

We sometimes say people need something “like a hole in the head”, meaning that they really don’t. People who believe in trepanning – making a burr hole in the skull – would beg to differ.