Successful management of a Comatose Patient with Traumatic Brain Exposure with a fronto-Parieto-occipital flap [PDF]
Journal of Trauma and Injury, 2020 Composite skull defects in patients with severe head injuries are very challenging to manage. The dilemma when deciding whether to perform a definitive reconstruction is how long to wait for physiological recovery before an intervention complicates the ...
Charles Chidiebele Maduba +1 more
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The Effect of White Noise on Pain in Unconscious Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury [PDF]
Journal of Evidence-Based Care, 2023 Background: Most patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) admitted to the intensive care unit experience pain. Nurses have a major role in pain management in patients with TBI.Aim: This study was performed aimed to investigate the effect of white noise
Zeynab Solimani +3 more
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Unconsciousness reconfigures modular brain network dynamics. [PDF]
Chaos, 2020 The dynamic core hypothesis posits that consciousness is correlated with simultaneously integrated and differentiated assemblies of transiently synchronized brain regions. We represented time-dependent functional interactions using dynamic brain networks
S. M. Del Pozo +5 more
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Unresponsiveness ≠ Unconsciousness [PDF]
Anesthesiology, 2012 Consciousness is subjective experience. During both sleep and anesthesia, consciousness is common, evidenced by dreaming. A defining feature of dreaming is that, while conscious, we do not experience our environment; we are disconnected. Besides inducing behavioral unresponsiveness, a key goal of anesthesia is to prevent the experience of surgery ...
Robert D. Sanders +4 more
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Singularity Theodicy and Immortality
Religions, 2019 Recent advances in technology have brought humanity to a unique point in history where theodicy is no more just a religious matter but also a matter of science and technology.
Hohyun Sohn
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Glasgow coma scale in acute poisonings before and after use of antidote in patients with history of use of psychotropic agents [PDF]
Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo, 2010 Introduction. Data on emergency interventions in poisonings are scarce. Objective. To determine the effectiveness of antidote therapy in acute poisoning-related emergency medical services (EMS) interventions. Methods.
Poplas-Sušić Tonka +3 more
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Effect of neck cut position on time to collapse in halal slaughtered cattle without stunning [PDF]
, 2015 This study examined the effect of neck cut position on the time to physical collapse in upright restrained halal slaughtered cattle (n = 644). Time to collapse was used as an indirect indicator of the early stages of onset of unconsciousness. Cattle were
Dadios, N, Gibson, T J, Gregory, N G
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Assessment of Unconsciousness for Memory Consolidation Using EEG Signals [PDF]
IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2020 The assessment of consciousness and unconsciousness is a challenging issue in modern neuroscience. Consciousness is closely related to memory consolidation in that memory is a critical component of conscious experience.
Gi-Hwan Shin, Minji Lee, Seong-Whan Lee
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Brain Sciences, 2020 In this study, we have reported a correlation between structural brain changes and electroencephalography (EEG) in response to tactile stimulation in ten comatose patients after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Galina Portnova +5 more
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Propofol Induction Reduces the Capacity for Neural Information Integration: Implications for the Mechanism of Consciousness and General Anesthesia [PDF]
, 2008 The cognitive unbinding paradigm suggests that the synthesis of cognitive information is attenuated by general anesthesia. Here, we investigated the functional organization of brain activities in the conscious and anesthetized states, based on ...
Byung-Moon Choi +4 more
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