... dysfunction inseveretraumaticbrain injury. Crit Care Med 2005, 33:654-660.3. Zygun DA, Doig CJ: Measuring organ dysfunction. In Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine Edited by: Vincent ... Lenzlinger PM: Analysis of immunemediator production following traumaticbrain injury. In Shock,Sepsis, and Organ Failure -Brain Damage Secondary to Hemor-rhagic -Traumatic Shock, Sepsis, and Traumatic ... source of cerebral ischemia following severe brain injuryin the Traumatic Coma Data Bank. Acta Neurochir Suppl(Wien) 1993, 59:121-125.17. Moreno R, Vincent JL, Matos R, Mendonca A, Cantraine...
... limits is controversial in patients with severetraumaticbrain injury, because decreasedblood glucose levels can induce and aggravate underlying brain injury. Methods In 228 propensity matched ... we investigated the impact of maintain-ing blood glucose levels within low and tight limits on fluctua-tions in blood glucose values, insulin and norepinephrinerequirements, alterations in intracranial ... in arterial blood glucose, insulin and norepinephrine dose, and ICP. Shown are changes in arterial blood glucose, insulin and norepine-phrine dose, and intracranial pressure (ICP) in surviving...
... whether norepinephrine-stimulated plateletsmight induce additional brain damage warrant furtherinvestigations.Introduction In clinical routine, norepinephrine is used to increase andmaintain arterial ... of surface P-selectin in platelets isolated from severetraumaticbraininjury patients compared with healthy controlsChanges in expression of surface P-selectin in platelets isolated from severe ... pressure; ICU = intensive care unit; IL = interleukin; PRP = platelet-rich plasma; SjvO2 = jugular venous oxygen saturation; sTBI = severetraumaticbrain injury; TBI = traumaticbrain injury; TRAP...
... irrespective of the type of lesion and the predominantside of the brain lesions (Table 1) (right-sided brain lesions: 13 of 15 patients; left-sided brain lesions: 7 of 8 patients; bilateral brain lesions: ... decreased brain tissue pH inversely correlated with ele-vated brain lactate and pCO2 during the first posttraumaticday [52]. Brain pH can either be determined directly by insert-ing specialised ... cortical spreading depression and peri-infarctdepolarisations in the acutely injured human brain. Clin Neu-rophysiol 2008, 119:1973-1984.12. Park E, Bell JD, Baker AJ: Traumaticbrain injury: can...
... optimizingcerebral glucose in acute braininjury has more recentlyattracted the interest of physicians involved in neurocriticalcare. The key research themes that are emerging includedetermining ... using arterial and jugular venous measure-ments to determine a range of plasma glucose betweenwhich cerebral metabolism is optimized in patients with traumatic braininjury (TBI). Their findings, ... the GLUT1 transporter in theblood -brain barrier after severe TBI decreases endothelial fluxCommentaryOptimizing cerebral glucose inseveretraumaticbrain injury: still some way to goCameron...
... Refractory intracranial hypertension is a leading cause of poor neurological outcomes in pa-tients with severetraumaticbrain injury. Decompressive craniectomy has been used in the management of refractory ... ofseveretraumaticbrain injury. J Clin Neurosurg 2006;3:124-125. 43. Whitfield PC, Patel H, Hutchison PJ, et al. Bifrontal decom-pressive craniectomy in the managementof posttraumatic in- tracranial ... subsequent management. At present, in the absence of prospective randomized controlled trials to prove the role of decompressive craniectomy in the treatment oftraumaticbrain injury, these...
... time-point, and TBI group Fig.Kinetics of body weight changes for up to 7 days after trau-matic braininjury (TBI)Figure 5Kinetics of body weight changes for up to 7 days after traumatic braininjury ... PF: Elevated intracranial IL-18 in humansand mice after traumaticbraininjury and evidence of neuro-protective effects of IL-18-binding protein after experimen-tal closed head injury. J Cereb ... (7d)**Posttraumatic injection of mAb 1379 attenuates C5a levels in serum of head-injured miceFigure 2Posttraumatic injection of mAb 1379 attenuates C5a levels in serum of head-injured mice....
... phos-phorylation of subunit proteins. Increases in glutamateafter injury trigger VGCC and NMDA receptors, increas-ing [Ca2+]i, and resulting in activation of CaMKII. A sin-gle dose of DZ can ... subunits in the brain typicallyform a limited number of receptor combinations [23].Reportedly, the following subunits combine to formnearly 80% of the GABAAR combinations in the rat brain: α1-3, ... McIntosh TK: Workshop of animal models oftraumaticbrain injury. J Neurotrauma 1994, 11:723-732.30. Hamm RJ, O'Dell DM, Pike BR, Lyeth BG: Cognitive impairment following traumatic brain...
... et al.: EBICguidelines for managementofsevere head injuryin adults.Acta Neurichir 1997, 139:286-294.20. Vincent JL, Berré J: Primer on medical managementof severe brain injury. Crit Care ... N, Singh D, Varma N, Mathuriya SN:Change in tissue thromboplastin content ofbrain followingtrauma. Neurol India 2005, 53:178-182.35. Stein SC, Smith DH: Coagulopathy intraumaticbrain injury. Neurocrit ... Rates of hos-pitalization related to traumaticbraininjury – nine states, 2003.MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2007, 56:167-170.2. Hoyt DB: A clinical review of bleeding dilemmas in trauma.Semin...
... strategic in mini-mizing the loss of household income by selectingTable 1: One-year costs associated with treatment by level oftraumaticbraininjury (Unit: USD, 1USD = 15,850 Vietnam dong)Level of ... first year post -injury, of non-fatal traumatic braininjury (TBI) in motorcycle users not wearing helmets in Hanoi, Vietnam. The costs arecalculated from the perspective of the injured patients ... post -injury at the time of interview.While all patients shared the same disability weight of zero pre -injury, the disparity post injury reflected the level of severity (Figure 2). In term of intangible...
... (n)Thoracic injury 7 2 0.13Abdominal injury 4 1 0.34Extremities injury 9 5 0.20Admission CT (n)Diffuse injury without brain swelling 12 4 0.046Diffuse bilateral brain swelling 6 12Diffuse ... and thiopental in terms of controlling refractory intracranial hypertension in patients with severe traumaticbrain injury, and to evaluate the adverse effects of treatment.Methods This was a ... 14Pre-enrolment CT (n)Diffuse injury without brain swelling 8 5 0.04Diffuse bilateral brain swelling 1 8Diffuse injury unilateral brain swelling with midline shift 5 1Any mass lesion evacuated 7 5Nonevacuated...
... agent in different in vitro models ofbrain injury induced by oxygen and glucose deprivation. We examined itsneuroprotective properties in an in vitro model oftraumatic brain injury. Methods In ... model of traumaticbrain injury. Introduction Traumatic braininjury (TBI) is a common consequence of traf-fic-related accidents and incidents at work and at home. Theannual incidence of TBI in ... in vitromodel ofbrain injury. Brain Res 2004, 1001:125-132.12. Morrison B 3rd, Eberwine JH, Meaney DF, McIntosh TK: Trau-matic injury induces differential expression of cell deathgenes in...