Traumatic Brain Injury

@article{Parikh2007TraumaticBI,
  title={Traumatic Brain Injury},
  author={Samira N. Parikh and Marcella Koch and Raj K. Narayan},
  journal={International Anesthesiology Clinics},
  year={2007},
  volume={45},
  pages={119-135}
}
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is physical injury to brain tissue that temporarily or permanently impairs brain function. Diagnosis is suspected clinically and confirmed by imaging [primarily computed tomography (CT), although magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be helpful later when it is logistically possible to obtain]. Initial treatment consists of ensuring a reliable airway and maintenance of adequate ventilation and blood pressure. Surgery is often needed in more severe cases to remove… 
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A novel multifunctional smart catheter to continuously and accurately monitor multiple physiological, metabolic and electrophysiological parameters that are vitally important in guiding the care of patients with traumatic brain injury is presented.
MANAGEMENT AND REHABILITATION OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY IN CHILDREN
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Neuromonitoring technology is still at an early stage in pediatric TBI, but improvements have provided the possibility of true multimodal monitoring for useful treatments and would help clinicians to evaluate the managements in hospitals.
Traumatic Brain Injury: Severity, Pathophysiology and Neurobehavioural Outcome
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The ranges of clinical problems reviewed include depression and anxiety, post-traumatic stress symptoms, as well as the TBI animal model.
Head Injuries.
Computed tomographic scan in head trauma: what is the rational in children?
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Current approaches, recommendations, and guidelines on pediatric head trauma with special emphasis on Cranial computed tomography (cCT) are reviewed, resulting in an extreme overuse with the inherent risk for inducing malignancies.
Chronic neurodegenerative consequences of traumatic brain injury.
  • N. Chauhan
  • Biology, Psychology
    Restorative neurology and neuroscience
  • 2014
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TBI is the best known established epigenetic risk factor for later development of neurodegenerative diseases and dementia and genetic background of ß-amyloid precursor protein (APP), Apolipoprotein E (ApoE), presenilin (PS) and neprilysin (NEP) genes is associated with exacerbation of neuro decline after TBI.
Visual problems associated with traumatic brain injury
  • R. Armstrong
  • Medicine, Psychology
    Clinical & experimental optometry
  • 2018
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Patients with chronic dysfunction following TBI may require occupational, vestibular, cognitive and other forms of physical therapy and benefit from visual rehabilitation, including reading‐related oculomotor training and the prescribing of spectacles with a variety of tints and prism combinations.
Traumatic Brain Injury Incidence, Clinical Overview, and Policies in the US Military Health System Since 2000
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Given the completion of recent combat operations and the transition of TBI patients into long-term care within the US Department of Veterans Affairs system, a review of the literature concerning TBI is timely.
Cognitive function and biomarkers after traumatic brain injury: protocol for a prospective inception cohort study
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This trial has been designed to determine whether functional imaging indexes and tau level in the cerebrospinal fluid can predict recovery of cognitive function in patients with traumatic brain injury and provide objective evidence for the clinical prevention and treatment of cognitive dysfunction following traumatic head injury.
Assessment of changes in Intracranial Pressure (ICP) after the implementation of therapeutic measures for Intracranial Hypertation (IH)
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Direct surgical treatment of IH is accompanied by better results in terms of mortality, morbidity and neurologic outcome, and hyperventilation is useful tool immediate, but temporary, intervention by the deterioration of the neurological profile and until such time as an objective fact.
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