Brain Injury

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Brain Injury

General Information

NEWS:

ARTICLES:

Intensive Glycemic Control May Be Hazardous for Injured Brain

NGC - Early management of patients with a head injury. A national clinical guideline. (2000)

NGC - Guidelines for prehospital management of traumatic brain injury. (2000)

NGC - Head injury in children. (2001)

NGC - Head injury: triage, assessment, investigation and early management of head injury in infants, children and adults. (2003)

NGC - Part II. Early indicators of prognosis in severe traumatic brain injury. In: Management and prognosis of severe traumatic brain injury. (2000)

NICE - Head injury: Triage, assessment, investigation and early management of head injury in infants, children and adults (2003)

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A prospective study of outcome predictors after severe brain injury in children. (Intensive Care Med. 2005)

Are somatosensory evoked potentials the best predictor of outcome after severe brain injury? A systematic review. (Intensive Care Med. 2005)

Bench-to-bedside review: Apoptosis/programmed cell death triggered by traumatic brain injury. (Crit Care. 2005)

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo as the cause of dizziness in patients after severe traumatic brain injury: diagnosis and treatment (Brain Injury)

Cerebral correlates of declarative memory dysfunctions in early traumatic brain injury. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005)

Closed head injury--an inflammatory disease? (Brain Res Brain Res Rev. 2005)

Cognitive sequelae of head injury: involvement of basal forebrain and associated structures. (Brain. 2005)

Dilated perivascular spaces: hallmarks of mild traumatic brain injury. (AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2005)

Effects of mild hypothermia on patients with lower intracranial pressure following severe brain injury. (Chin J Traumatol. 2005)

Epidemiology of traumatic brain injury in children receiving intensive care in the UK. (Arch Dis Child. 2005)

Extensive cortical rewiring after brain injury. (J Neurosci. 2005)

Factors related to recovery after mild traumatic brain injury. (Brain Inj. 2005)

Fall-related brain injuries and the risk of dementia in elderly people: a population-based study. (Eur J Neurol. 2005)

Functional status after childhood traumatic brain injury. (J Trauma. 2005)

Head Circumference and Brain and Hippocampal Volume after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood (Pediatric Research 2005)

Headache After Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Longitudinal Analysis (Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 2005)

Hyperventilation in head injury: a review. (Chest. 2005)

Hypopituitarism following traumatic brain injury (Growth Hormone & IGF Research 2005)

Identifying factors contributing to child and family outcome 30 months after traumatic brain injury in children. (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2005)

Late Neurologic and Cognitive Sequelae of Inflicted Traumatic Brain Injury in Infancy (PEDIATRICS 2005)

Long-term attention problems in children with traumatic brain injury. (J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2005)

Long-term neuropsychological outcomes following mild traumatic brain injury. (J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2005)

Long-term outcome in severe traumatic brain injury is significantly influenced by brainstem involvement (Brain Injury 2005)

Management and classification of children with head injury. (Childs Nerv Syst. 2005)

Middle age cognition and vocational outcome of childhood brain injury (Acta Neurologica Scandinavica 2005)

Mild traumatic brain injury in the United States, 1998-2000 (Brain Injury)

Mortality in severely injured elderly trauma patients--when does age become a risk factor? (World J Surg. 2005)

Myelinated and unmyelinated axons of the corpus callosum differ in vulnerability and functional recovery following traumatic brain injury. (Exp Neurol. 2005)

Outcome after traumatic brain injury: effects of aging on recovery. (Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2005)

Overview of traumatic brain injury patients at a tertiary trauma centre. (Can J Neurol Sci. 2005)

Pathophysiologic aspects of major depression following traumatic brain injury. (J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2005)

Pathophysiology of traumatic injury in the developing brain: an introduction and short update. (Exp Toxicol Pathol)

[Posttraumatic headache. Pathophysiology, clinical, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects] (Neurologia. 2005)

Posttraumatic seizures - prevention or not. (Bosn J Basic Med Sci. 2005)

Recovery of executive skills following paediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI): A 2 year follow-up (Brain Injury 2005)

Successful Outcome in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Case Study (J Neurosci Nurs. 2005)

The impact of age on traumatic brain injury. (Phys Med Rehabil Clin N Am. 2005)

The impact of hyperglycemia on patients with severe brain injury. (J Trauma. 2005)

The minimally conscious state and recovery potential: a follow-up study 2 to 5 years after traumatic brain injury. (Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2005)

Thrombocytopenia predicts progressive hemorrhage after head trauma. (J Neurotrauma. 2005)

Traumatic brain injury and hypopituitarism. (ScientificWorldJournal. 2005)

Traumatic brain injury: a review. (Crit Care Nurs Q. 2005)

Two decades of advances in understanding of mild traumatic brain injury. (J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2005)

Update of neuropathology and neurological recovery after traumatic brain injury. (J Head Trauma Rehabil. 2005)

Ventricular enlargement after moderate or severe head injury: a frequent and neglected problem. (J Neurotrauma. 2005)

What cues do nurses use to predict aggression in people with acquired brain injury? (J Neurosci Nurs. 2005)

INTERNET SITES:

NIH - Head and Brain Injuries

NIH - Medical Encyclopedia Head injury

NIH - NIDCD Traumatic Brain Injury: Cognitive and Communication Disorders

NIH - NINDS Traumatic Brain Injury Information Page

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