Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Critical care management of severe traumatic brain injury in adults
... Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), defined as head trauma associated with a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 3 to 8 [1], is a major and challenging problem in critical care ...of ...
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The Prevalence of Pituitary Dysfunction in Children Following Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in the Acute Phase
... Neuro-endocrine disorders are a frequent complication of head trauma. The exploration of these disturbances is important because it can contribute to the understanding of some symptoms presented by the patients for ...
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Early Resuscitation of Children With Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
... METHODS: This was a retrospective study of 299 children with moder- ate-to-severe traumatic brain injury presenting to a level 1 pediatric trauma center. We recorded vital signs and medical ...
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Putting a human face to severe traumatic brain injury research : a review of neuropsychological rehabilitation, obsessive compulsive disorder and caregiver burden with respect to the case of BP : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University
... Putting a Human Face to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Research: A Review of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Caregiver Burden with Respect to the Case[r] ...
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Brain tissue partial pressure of oxygen predicts the outcome of severe traumatic brain injury under mild hypothermia treatment
... the brain has proved to be a key factor in the treatment of patients with severe traumatic brain injury ...in brain tissue include intracranial pressure (ICP), cerebral perfusion ...
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Mannitol cannot reduce the mortality on acute severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients: a meta–analyses and systematic review
... in severe traumatic brain injury patients have rarely met the high quality standards of evidence-based ...of severe brain injury [53 – ...
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Putting a human face to severe traumatic brain injury research : a review of neuropsychological rehabilitation, obsessive compulsive disorder and caregiver burden with respect to the case of BP : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology at Massey University
... Putting a Human Face to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Research: A Review of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Caregiver Burden with Respect to the Case[r] ...
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Prognostic Indicators for Better Outcome in Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
... This is to certify that this dissertation titled "PROGNOSTIC INDICATORS FOR BETTER OUTCOME IN MODERATE TO SEVERE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY" submitted to the Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical ...
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Clinical review: Brain body temperature differences in adults with severe traumatic brain injury
... of brain temperature are used in the routine management of patients with brain ...the brain is ‘hotter’ than the ...between brain and body, however, remains unclear after severe ...
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Patterns of change and stability in caregiver burden and life satisfaction from 1 to 2 years after severe traumatic brain injury : a Norwegian longitudinal study
... Severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the most common causes of death and disability in young adults and is therefore a major public health challenge (Sundstrom et ...the injury ...
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Bromocriptine in Central Hyperthermia after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
... with severe traumatic brain injury may be associated with lower incidence of central hyper- thermia with no effect on other outcomes like length of stay or ...
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Severe traumatic brain injury
... in severe TBI patients with diffuse injury (without mass lesions), and with intracranial pressure (ICP) elevation to values > 20 mm Hg for more than 15 minutes within a 1-hour period that are refractory ...
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Early prediction of outcome after severe traumatic brain injury: a simple and practical model
... 4; severe disability or death) and acceptable outcome (eGOS > 4; no or moderate ...Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) severity, the Marshall computed tomography score, and pupillary ...of injury ...
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MRI in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Micro- and Macrostructural Changes
... The potential of DTI to measure and monitor microstructural changes in vivo following TBI has a number of clinical implications. As DTI seems to provide high sensitivity for the detection of TAI, DTI has important ...
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Polymorphonuclear (PMN) elastase in patients after severe traumatic brain injury
... (i.e., severe brain injury) and radiological signs of an intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) on the initial cranial CT scan (performed within 90 min after TBI) were pro- spectively ...untreatable ...
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THE INCIDENCE OF NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH ISOLATED SEVERE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
... ICU. Severe TBI complica- ted by nosocomial infections leads to prolonged hospi- talization, thus raising the cost of ...with severe TBI are becoming one of the major global health ...
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Impact of non neurological complications in severe traumatic brain injury outcome
... head injury (lower GCS scores) but not with specific anatomic lesions diagnosed by cranial CT scans ...study, severe respiratory failure was not indepen- dently associated with mortality, but it increased ...
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Hypernatremia in patients with severe traumatic brain injury: a systematic review
... following traumatic brain injury (TBI) and occurs from a variety of mechanisms, including hyperosmotic fluids, limitation of free water, or diabetes ...
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Vasopressor use following traumatic injury: protocol for a systematic review
... with severe trau- matic brain injury (Glasgow Coma Scale ≤ 8) versus those without (Glasgow Coma Scale >8), hypothesising that patients with severe traumatic brain ...
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Dolp, Reinhard (2017): Der CaV2.1(P/Q)-Kalziumkanal: Bedeutung für Pathophysiologie, Therapie und Prognostik des Sekundärschadens nach Schädelhirntrauma. Dissertation, LMU München: Medizinische Fakultät
... Die Brain Trauma Foundation beschreibt in Ihren Leitlinien im Kapitel über Prognosefaktoren des SHT („Early Indicators Of Prognosis In Severe Traumatic Brain Injury“[r] ...
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