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Management of Spasticity After Traumatic Brain Injury in Children
Traumatic brain injury is a common cause of disability worldwide. In fact, trauma is the second most common cause of death and disability, still today. Traumatic brain injury affects nearly 475 000 children in the United States alone.
Johannes M. N. Enslin +6 more
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Behaviour and school performance after brain injury [PDF]
Primary Objective: To examine the relationship between behavioural problems and school performance following traumatic brain injury (TBI) Methods and Procedures: Subjects: 67 school-age children with TBI (35 mild, 13 moderate, 19 severe), and 14 ...
Hawley, Carol
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Traumatic brain injury: Correlation of general patient condition, vital parameters and management at the admission to the intensive care unit, with final outcome (traumatic brain injury) [PDF]
Introduction: Traumatic brain injuries are injuries of central nervous system that may be associated with poor outcome. Mortality in patients with severe brain trauma may be as high as 30-50%.
Vukadinović Antonija +2 more
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The decrease in mortality and improved outcome for patients with severe traumatic brain injury over the past 25 years can be attributed to the approach of "squeezing oxygenated blood through a swollen brain". Quantification of cerebral perfusion by monitoring of intracranial pressure and treatment of cerebral hypoperfusion decrease secondary injury ...
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Sports-related brain injury in the general population: An epidemiological study
Objectives To determine the incidence, nature and severity of all sports-related brain injuries in the general population. Design Population-based epidemiological incidence study.
Feigin, Valery L. +6 more
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Objective To identify the prognostic value of C-reactive protein to albumin ratio (CRP/ALB, CAR) and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score in the weaning outcomes of mechanical ventilation (MV) in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI).Methods Medical ...
Jiaxuan Zeng +13 more
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Clinical profile, management, and outcome of pediatric neurotrauma: a multicentric observational study [PDF]
Purpose Pediatric neurotrauma (pNT) includes pediatric traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury. The incidence and distribution of pNT by age and sex remain understudied, with several gaps in both epidemiological and clinical data.
Sanat Kumar Khanna +3 more
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Neurological consequences of traumatic brain injuries in sports.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is common in boxing and other contact sports. The long term irreversible and progressive aftermath of TBI in boxers depicted as punch drunk syndrome was described almost a century ago and is now widely referred as chronic ...
Zetterberg, H +5 more
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Key Clinical Message Traumatic brain injuries have the potential to cause the development of long‐term complications. We aim to show that the use of flexor tenotomies in the treatment of flexion contractures following traumatic brain injury is a viable ...
Elizabeth Brown +4 more
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Tau as a fluid biomarker of concussion and neurodegeneration
Concussion is predominant among the vast number of traumatic brain injuries that occur worldwide. Difficulties in timely identification, whether concussion led to neuronal injury or not, diagnosis and the lack of prognostic tools for adequate management ...
Iftakher Hossain +3 more
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