Traumatic Brain Injury

Description

Traumatic Brain Injury provides practical, neurological guidance to the diagnosis and management of patients who suffer from traumatic brain injury.

Taking a “patient journey” in traumatic brain injury, from prehospital management to the emergency department, into rehabilitation and finally reemergence in the community, it demonstrates how neurologists can facilitate recovery at all points along the way. It provides guidelines and algorithms to help support patients with brain injury within trauma centers, in posttraumatic care following discharge, and with mild traumatic brain injury not requiring immediate hospitalization.

From an international team of expert editors and contributors, Traumatic Brain Injury is a valuable resource for neurologists, trainee neurologists, and others working with patients with traumatic brain injury.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments

Part I: Introduction and imaging

• 1 The clinical problem of traumatic head injury 3
  Ramon Diaz-Arrastia and Pieter E. Vos
• 2 Neuroimaging in traumatic brain injury 13
  Pieter E. Vos Carlos Marquez de la Plata and Ramon Diaz-Arrastia

Part II: Prehospital and ED care

• 3 Out-of-hospital management in traumatic brain injury 45
  Peter R.G. Brink
• 4 Emergency department evaluation of mild traumatic brain injury 55
  Noel S. Zuckerbraun C. Christopher King and Rachel P. Berger
• 5 In-hospital observation for mild traumatic brain injury 71
  Pieter E. Vos and Dafin F. Muresanu

Part III: In hospital

• 6 ICU care: surgical and medical management—indications for immediate surgery 89
  Peter S. Amenta and Jack Jallo
• 7 ICU care: surgical and medical management—neurological monitoring and treatment 115
  Luzius A. Steiner
• 8 ICU care: surgical and medical management—systemic treatment 134
  Lori Shutter

Part IV: Rehabilitation

• 9 Rehabilitation of cognitive deficits after traumatic brain injury 165
  Philippe Azouvi and Claire Vallat-Azouvi
• Part V: Postacute care and community in reintegration
• 10 Epidemiology of traumatic brain injury 183
  Ramon Diaz-Arrastia and Kimbra Kenney
• 11 Neuropsychiatric and behavioral sequelae 192
  Kathleen F. Pagulayan and Jesse R. Fann
• 12 Follow-up and community integration of mild traumatic brain injury 211
  Joukje van der Naalt and Joke M. Spikman

Index 226

Authors

Pieter E. Vos, Department of Neurology, Radbound University, Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA