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The Silent Epidemic of Road Traffic Injury: What Can Music Therapists do About It?

Voices, 2008
Can music therapists do anything about road traffic injury and its effects? Road traffic crashes are responsible for up to 1.2 million deaths and up to 50 million injuries globally each year. One quarter of these injuries are traumatic brain injuries. In
Simon Gilbertson
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Time to death and its predictors among traumatic brain injury patients admitted to East Amhara comprehensive specialized hospitals, Ethiopia: retrospective cohort study

BMC Neurology
Background Globally, 64–74 million individuals around the world are estimated to sustain traumatic brain injury every year. Moderate and severe traumatic brain injury can lead to a lifetime physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioral changes.
Abdurehman Ayele, Samuel Anteneh, Fatuma Seid Degu, Getenet Dessie, Arega Abebe Lonsako, Alemayehu Anley, Gizew Beyene   +6 more
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High data retrieval rates with SwissPedData for paediatric traumatic brain injuries in children’s hospitals: a multicentre, point-prevalence study

Swiss Medical Weekly
STUDY AIMS: SwissPedNet aims to improve the quality of multicentre research through standardised documentation of routine healthcare data. Therefore, SwissPedData was developed as a set of defined common data elements to be documented in each electronic
Michael von Rhein, Niklaus Krayenbühl, Andreas Meyer-Heim, Sergio Manzano, Gianluca Gualco, Renato Gualtieri, Fabrizio Romano, Alexander Mack, Larissa Hauser-Angst, Michelle Seiler   +9 more
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Head Injury- A Maxillofacial Surgeon’s Perspective [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016
Injuries and violence are one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide. A substantial portion of these injuries involve the maxillofacial region. Among the concomitant injuries, injuries to the head and cervical spine are amongst those that demand ...
MURALEE MOHAN CHOONTHAR, ANANTHAN RAGHOTHAMAN, RAJENDRA PRASAD, S PRADEEP, KALPA PANDYA   +4 more
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A peptide for targeted, systemic delivery of imaging and therapeutic compounds into acute brain injuries

Nature Communications, 2016
Accurate treatment of traumatic brain injuries, a leading cause of neurological disability and death in young people, is hampered by poor accumulation of drugs in the brain.
Aman P. Mann, Pablo Scodeller, Sazid Hussain, Jinmyoung Joo, Ester Kwon, Gary B. Braun, Tarmo Mölder, Zhi-Gang She, Venkata Ramana Kotamraju, Barbara Ranscht, Stan Krajewski, Tambet Teesalu, Sangeeta Bhatia, Michael J. Sailor, Erkki Ruoslahti   +14 more
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A Thoracic Mechanism of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Due to Blast Pressure Waves [PDF]

, 2008
The mechanisms by which blast pressure waves cause mild to moderate traumatic brain injury (mTBI) are an open question. Possibilities include acceleration of the head, direct passage of the blast wave via the cranium, and propagation of the blast wave to
Michael Courtney, Amy Courtney
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Pathological correlations between traumatic brain injury and chronic neurodegenerative diseases

Translational Neurodegeneration, 2017
Traumatic brain injury is among the most common causes of death and disability in youth and young adults. In addition to the acute risk of morbidity with moderate to severe injuries, traumatic brain injury is associated with a number of chronic ...
Marcela Cruz-Haces, Jonathan Tang, Glen Acosta, Joseph Fernandez, Riyi Shi   +4 more
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European society of intensive care medicine study of therapeutic hypothermia (32-35 °C) for intracranial pressure reduction after traumatic brain injury (the Eurotherm3235Trial). [PDF]

, 2011
BACKGROUND: Traumatic brain injury is a major cause of death and severe disability worldwide with 1,000,000 hospital admissions per annum throughout the European Union.Therapeutic hypothermia to reduce intracranial hypertension may improve patient ...
Mascia, L, Polderman, Kees, Andrews, Peter JD, Harris Bridget A, P. J. Andrews, Harris, Bridget A, Mascia L, Andrews, Peter J. D., Battison CG, Battison, CG, Harris, Bridget, B. A. Harris, Murray Gordon D, G. D. Murray, Sinclair HL, Sinclair, Helen Louise, Murray GD, De Backer D, Battison, Claire G., the Eurotherm3235Trial collaborators, Stocchetti, N, Eurotherm 3235 trials collaborators, Menon, David K, Sinclair, HL, D. K. Menon, H. Shakur, Sinclair, Helen L.Helen, G. Citerio, Citerio, Giuseppe, Shakur, H, Polderman, Kees H., De Backer, Daniel, Andrews, Peter, the Eurotherm3235Trial collaborators., Citerio G, Stocchetti Nino, C. G. Battison, Eurotherm3235Trial collaborators, Polderman Kees H, Citerio Giuseppe, De Backer Daniel, Shakur H, Andrews, PJD, Harris, BA, Menon, David Krishna, Mascia, Luciana, Mascia Luciana, K. H. Polderman, Citerio, G, Shakur, Haleema, N. Stocchetti, Stocchetti N, Battison Claire G, H. L. Sinclair, Harris BA, Menon DK, Shakur Haleema, L. K. Mascia, Battison, Claire, Harris, Bridget A., Murray, Gordon, Polderman KH, Andrews Peter JD, Murray, Gordon D, De Backer, D, Andrews PJ, Menon David K, Stocchetti, Nino, Murray, Gordon D., Menon, DK, Sinclair Helen, Battison, Claire G, Menon, David K., D. De Backer, Polderman, Kees H, Murray, GD, Polderman, KH, Bridget A Harris, Peter JD Andrews, Haleema Shakur, Kees H Polderman, Daniel De Backer, null null, David K Menon, Giuseppe Citerio, Claire G Battison, Helen Louise Sinclair, Gordon D Murray, Nino Stocchetti, Luciana Mascia   +89 more
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Strategies to avoid a missed diagnosis of co-occurring concussion in post-acute patients having a spinal cord injury

Neural Regeneration Research, 2015
Research scientists and clinicians should be aware that missed diagnoses of mild-moderate traumatic brain injuries in post-acute patients having spinal cord injuries may approach 60-74% with certain risk factors, potentially causing clinical consequences
David S Kushner
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Significance of Elecsys (R) S100 immunoassay for real-time assessment of traumatic brain damage in multiple trauma patients [PDF]

, 2006
Background: The neuroprotein S100 released into the circulation has been suggested as a reliable marker for primary brain damage. However, safe identification of relevant traumatic brain injury (TBI) may possibly be hampered by S100 release from ...
Kirchhoff, Chlodwig, Gippner-Steppert, Cornelia, Mussack, Thomas, Buhmann, Sonja, Jochum, Marianne, Ladurner, Roland, Biberthaler, Peter, Mutschler, Wolf   +7 more
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