Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury - part 2 potx

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... Vascular injury Raised intracranial pressure and associated vascular changesThis page intentionally left blank Textbook of Traumatic Brain Injury 22 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY Let ... in emergency de-partments for sports- and recreation-related head inju-ries; of these persons, 20 0,000 were diagnosed with a brain injury (Gotsch et al. 20 02) . Countless sports-relatedTBIs ... 1996).Characteristics of High-Risk ExposuresPublished studies use inconsistent classifications of exter-nal cause of injury, which restricts any meta-analysis of cause of brain injury. Broad groupings of external...

... “clinical sense” with re- 20 2 TEXTBOOK OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY lower socioeconomic classes in their 30s. The principalcause of brain injury was motor vehicle accidents. Themajority of patients (68%) ... neuropsychia-tric evaluation and treatment of the patient with trau-matic brain injury (TBI).Role of the NeuropsychologistIn the traumatically brain- injured population, the neu-ropsychologist most often ... independent of injury severity. Ellenberg et al. (1996) found that theproportion of 1 6- or 25 -year-olds still in PTA was lowerthan that of 40-year-olds (Cox proportional hazards sur-vival curves)...

... (Table 24 –4). TCAs, partic-ularly amitriptyline, have shown efficacy in the manage-ment of diabetic neuropathy and are used for other neuro-pathic states (Fishbain 20 00a, 20 00b, 20 02; Lynch 20 01;Mattia ... Morethan one-half of the patients were diagnosed with delayed-phase type and the rest disorganized-type sleep-wake cy-cle disturbance.Quinto et al. (20 00) described the case of a 48-year-old man ... Nicholson (20 02) published an excellent re-view of the use of sodium Amytal infusion in the assess-ment and treatment of chronic pain (and functional disor-ders). Tizanidine, an α 2 -adrenergic...

... competitive NMDA antag-onists such as Selfotel (CGS-19755 or cis- 4-[ phospho-methyl ] -2 -piperidine carboxylic acid), LY233053 ([1 ]- [2SR,4RS ]-4 -[ 1H-tetrazol-5-ylmethyl] piperidine -2 - car-boxylic acid), ... relief, 425 , 425 tpsychiatric side effects of, 611t, 612tCortisol levels in stress response, 23 7 23 8Costs of head injuries, 22 23 , 23 f, 24 f, 728 of treatmentin mild brain injuries, 28 1t, 28 2and ... candidates for the treatment of traumatic CNS injury, most of the early-generation compounds such as 2- amino-5-phosphovaleric acid (APV) and 3-( 2- carbox-ypiperizin-4yl)-propyl-1-phosphonic acid (CPP)...