Main 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.

Contents:

List of contributors vii Preface x Acknowledgments xii 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