Traumatic Brain Injury

Donald W. Marion

Thieme, 1999 - Brain - 302 pages

The volume is highly captivating and readable... An excellent book that deserves to be read by anyone interested in the treatment of this type of pathology. Child's Nervous System

Small enough to read from cover to cover but with enough information to serve as a comprehensive reference on all aspects of traumatic brain injury, this book is unique in the field. You will find full sections on topics ranging from pathophysiology, initial evaluation and acute care, to rehabilitation, prognosis and chronic issues related to specific types of brain injury.

Traumatic Brain Injury begins with an introductory chapter on history and epidemiology, and goes on to closely examine severe, mild and moderate, and penetrating brain injuries, with treatment recommendations throughout.

Special features:

• Easy organization in five self-contained sections allows clinicians to quickly locate the condition they're treating
• Extensive use of tables and illustrations provides rapid access to information
• Practical, current treatment recommendationsincluding assessment, pharmacologic interventions nd outcomeadd to the book's usefulness
• Full coverage of surgical decision-making, secondary braininjury, and sports-related head injuries round out the book's scope
• Contains tips and guidelines for prehospital and emergency room management
• Comprehensive review of pediatric as well as adult traumatic brain injury

Focusing on the more commonly seen conditions to increase the book's practicality, written by clinicians who work with these patients on a daily basis, and with all treatment recommendations consistent with the Guidelines for Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injuries endorsed by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, this book is an indispensable professional reference. Practicing neurosurgeons, trauma surgeons, emergency room physicians and critical care intensivists will find it invaluable.

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Contents

• Halliday: 29
• Neurochemical and Cellular Mediators: 45
• Prehospital Management: 65
• Surgical Treatment of Posttraumatic Mass Lesions: 81
• Intensive Care Unit Management: 111
• Neurorehabilitation: 119
• Prognosis: 135
• Mild and Moderate Traumatic Brain Injuries: 141
• Pathophysiology: 149
• Acute Care: 155
• Traumatic Brain Injuries in Athletes: 165
• Assessment and Pharmacologic Interventions: 173
• 9: 182
• Assessment Treatment and Outcome: 187
• 119: 196
• Ballistics and Forensics: 201
• Acute Care: 215
• Pediatric Brain Injuries: 231
• 135: 248
• 155: 255
• Acute Care: 257
• 165: 278
• Prognosis and Recovery: 283

Popular passages

Page 75 - Muizelaar JP, Marmarou A, Ward JD, et al: Adverse effects of prolonged hyperventilation in patients with severe head injury: a randomized clinical trial.

Page 64 - Pepe PE, et al. Immediate versus delayed fluid resuscitation for hypotensive patients with penetrating torso injuries. N Engl J Med 1994; 331:1105-1109. 4. Gross D, Landau EH, Assalia A, Krausz MM. Is hypertonic saline resuscitation safe in "uncontrolled

Page 64 - Early and late systemic hypotension as a frequent and fundamental source of cerebral ischemia following severe brain injury in the Traumatic Coma Data Bank" Acta Neurochir (Suppl), 59, 121-125, 1993 Chesnut RM, Marshall LF, Klauber MR et al.

Page 64 - Jenkins LW, Moszynski K, Lyeth BG, et al. Increased vulnerability of the mildly traumatized rat brain to cerebral ischemia: The use of controlled secondary ischemia as a research tool to identify common or different mechanisms contributing to mechanical and ischemic brain injury. Brain Res 477:211-24, 1989.

Page 284 - An adaptation of the nitrous oxide method to the study of the cerebral circulation in children; normal values for cerebral blood flow and cerebral metabolic rate in childhood.

Page 23 - The incidence of acute brain injury and serious impairment in a defined population.

Page 53 - Morgan, JI, and Curran, T. (1991). Stimulus-transcription coupling in the nervous system: involvement of the inducible proto-oncogenes fos and jun.

Page 74 - Bouma GJ, Muizelaar JP, Choi SC, et al: Cerebral circulation and metabolism after severe traumatic brain injury: the elusive role of ischemia. J Neurosurg 75: 685-693, 1991 12.

About the author

The Brain Trauma Research Center, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Associate chief of Neurological surgery, UMPC Presbyterian Hospital

Bibliographic information

• Title: Traumatic Brain Injury
• Editor: Donald W. Marion
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Thieme, 1999
• ISBN: 0865777276, 9780865777279
• Length: 302 pages