Catastrophic Non-Survivable Brain Injury Care–Role 2/3

P22: Traumatic Brain Injury

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Primary brain trauma in non-accidental injury.

The brains from 12 babies up to 21/2 years of age, who died after repeated non-accidental injury to the head, were subjected to detailed neuropathological examination. The nine brains from infants under 5 months showed contusional tears--slit like lesions in the white matter surrounded by astrocytes and associated with evidence of old and recent haemorrhage. The three brains from infants over 5...

Spectrum of catastrophic brain injury: coma and related disorders of consciousness.

Medical, legal, and ethical challenges associated with pregnancy and catastrophic brain injury.

In late 2013, two women from North America gained attention after sustaining catastrophic brain injuries while pregnant. After Marlise Muñoz--who was at 14 weeks of pregnancy when she developed a pulmonary embolism--was pronounced brain dead, hospital officials initially refused to withdraw support, citing a Texas state law requiring them to maintain life-sustaining treatment for a pregnant pat...

P10: Reactive Glial Cells for Brain Injury

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