Severe head injury
Use of Glasgow Coma Scale as an Indicator for Early Tracheostomy in Patients with Severe Head Injury
... In the present study, we assessed patients referred to the Shahid Bahonar Trauma Center at the Kerman University of Medical Sciences (Kerman, Iran) with severe head injury (GCS score ≤8) who needed ...
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Access to the Intensive Care Unit by Severe Head Injury Patients.
... by severe head injury patients revolves mainly around delayed review by the anesthesia team and the availability of bed space, which may by extension be impacted by the availability of mechanical ...
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Comparative Clinical-Radiologic-Post mortem Study of Diffuse Axonal Injury in Severe Head Injury Patients
... Axonal Injury in Severe Head Injury Patients” was done by me at the Department of Neurosurgery, Institute of Neurosurgery, Madras Medical College & Rajiv Gandhi Government General ...
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HIGH ARTERIAL BLOOD LACTATE AS SIRS PREDICTOR IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERE HEAD INJURY
... clinical severe head injury patients ...cases. Severe head injury is a head traumatic case frequently found in Emergency Units, where some cases result in ...(GCS), ...
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Outcome in elderly individuals with moderate and severe head injury: a tertiary centre experience
... and severe head injuries is poor in elderly individuals which affects not only their families and also the ...and severe head injury and to compare it with the outcome of younger age ...
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The effects of normovolemic anemia and blood transfusion on cerebral microcirculation after severe head injury
... contusion (Fig. 4). This is consistent with the a priori expectations regarding cerebral microcirculation after severe head injury although this reduction in RMBF was not seen to be statistically ...
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Guidelines for the Management of Severe Head Injury: Are Emergency Physicians Following Them?
... managing severe head injury patients in accordance with the ‘‘Guidelines for the Man- agement of Severe Head Injury,’’ with the exception of avoiding prophylactic ...severely ...
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Controversial treatment of a victim of severe head injury complicated by septic shock and acute respiratory distress syndrome
... Although ethically controversial because of increased risk of intracranial bleeding, APC should not be rejected as part of a rescue therapy in cases of severe head injury complicating with septic ...
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Risk of post-traumatic epilepsy after severe head injury in patients with at least one seizure
... the injury subjects was from 8 months to 34 years, and another half was between the age of 35–79 ...between injury and onset of seizure increased the probability of developing PTE compared with those ...
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Cerebral perfusion pressure and risk of brain hypoxia in severe head injury: a prospective observational study
... Over a one year period, 24 consecutive patients with TBI and a post-resuscitation Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) < 9 were initially enrolled in this study. As an observational study, approval from the local Research and ...
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Experience with prolonged induced hypothermia in severe head injury
... suffer severe closed TBI, defined as a Glascow Coma Scale (GCS) score below 9 at any time after 6 h following ...with severe TBI were treated with the follow- ing: controlled mechanical ventilation; ...
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A Prospective Analytical study on CT Guided Frameless stereotactic Brain Biopsy severe Head Injury
... anatomical knowledge of brain and clinical findings to plan their operative approaches. D. N. Zernov, in 1889, was the first person to use an instrument for locating brain structures, who designed an apparatus that could ...
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Neuro-Ophthalmology in Severe Head Injury
... In the initial evaluation of any head injury vic- tim, a thorough neuro-ophthalmic examination will provide important clues to localization of sites of trauma, whet[r] ...
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The role of prophylactic anticonvulsants in moderate to severe head injury
... that injury to any part of the brain may result in seizure, but the incidence is significantly greater when damage is in the region adjacent to the temporal ...
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Coagulation factors study in acute severe Head Injury
... Grenander and colleagues described Antithrombin III administration marginally reduced the hypercoagulation parameters.The CRASH-2 (Clinical Randomisation of Antifibrinolytic in Significant Haemorrhage) trial is a large ...
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Injuries Resulting When Small Children Fall Out of Bed
... must conclude that severe head injury and CNS damage or injury of any type are extremely rare when children, aged 5 years or less, fall out of. bed[r] ...
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HIGH BLOOD LEVELS PROCALCITONIN AS SYSTEMIC IMFLAMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME PREDICTOR IN SEVERE AND MODERATE HEAD INJURY
... particular head injuries and severe head injuries. Moderate and severe head injuries were common trauma cases in Emergency Room (ER) and had high mortality ...and severe ...
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Single photon emission computed tomography scanning: A predictor of outcome in vegetative state of head injury.
... severely head injured patients, failed to show signifi cant improvement despite aggressive neurosurgical management and ended up in a vegetative ...with severe head injury, who remained ...
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Nosocomial infections and immunity: lesson from brain injured patients
... in head-injured children. Eighteen children with severe head injury received IVIG (400 mg/kg) and 14 received albumin placebo within 48 hours after ...
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The study protocol for the Head Injury Retrieval Trial (HIRT): a single centre randomised controlled trial of physician prehospital management of severe blunt head injury compared with management by paramedics
... the severe head injury subgroup criteria (initial GCS < 9 at the incident scene) did not have severe head ...prehospital head injury management ...anatomically ...
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