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USABILITY OF WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION DISABILITY ASSESSMENT SCHEDULE IN CHRONIC TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY [PDF]
Objectives: To investigate functioning measured with the 12-item World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS 2.0) in patients with mild, moderate and severe traumatic brain injury, and to compare patients' experiences with ...
Kaljonen A+3 more
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Estimating the global incidence of traumatic brain injury.
OBJECTIVETraumatic brain injury (TBI)-the "silent epidemic"-contributes to worldwide death and disability more than any other traumatic insult. Yet, TBI incidence and distribution across regions and socioeconomic divides remain unknown.
M. Dewan+11 more
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When the fourth edition of the Brain Trauma Foundation's Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury were finalized in late 2016, it was known that the results of the RESCUEicp (Trial of Decompressive Craniectomy for Traumatic ...
G. Hawryluk+15 more
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Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury, Fourth Edition
The scope and purpose of this work is 2-fold: to synthesize the available evidence and to translate it into recommendations. This document provides recommendations only when there is evidence to support them.
N. Carney+16 more
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Prevention Strategies of Traumatic Brain Injury in Football Players [PDF]
In this project, we study the effects of the impact angle during a helmet-to-helmet collision on stress distribution and deacceleration values of the brain tissue in efforts to reduce brain injuries for football players.
Baxter, Gary+3 more
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Problem/Condition Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has short- and long-term adverse clinical outcomes, including death and disability. TBI can be caused by a number of principal mechanisms, including motor-vehicle crashes, falls, and assaults.
Christopher A Taylor+3 more
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Cellular infiltration in traumatic brain injury
Traumatic brain injury leads to cellular damage which in turn results in the rapid release of damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) that prompt resident cells to release cytokines and chemokines.
Aftab Alam+6 more
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Mechanisms of Blood–Brain Barrier Dysfunction in Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) account for the majority of injury-related deaths in the United States with roughly two million TBIs occurring annually. Due to the spectrum of severity and heterogeneity in TBIs, investigation into the secondary injury is
Alison M. Cash, M. Theus
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Detection of blast-related traumatic brain injury in U.S. military personnel [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Blast-related traumatic brain injuries have been common in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but fundamental questions about the nature of these injuries remain unanswered.
Brody, David L+11 more
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Mild traumatic brain injury [PDF]
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one among the most frequent neurological disorders. Of all TBIs 90% are considered mild with an annual incidence of 100–300/100 000. Intracranial complications of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) are infrequent (10%), requiring neurosurgical intervention in a minority of cases (1%), but potentially life threatening ...
Vos Pieter E.+10 more
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