Prognosis of Severe Head Injuries

Prognosis for patients with severe brain injuries.

Intraventricular pressure recording has been a standard procedure in the neurosurgical clinic, University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, since 1964. Up to 31 December 1970, 250 recordings had been performed, 90 of these on brain-injured patients. Intraventricular pressure correlates well with survival or death of the patient but will not predict the quality of survival. However, other cri...

Cervical spinal injuries in moderate to severe head injuries.

BACKGROUND Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death in all age group. The incidence of CSI increases with the severity of TBI so prompt care of cervical spine is necessary in all patients with moderate to severe head injury. The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of cervical injury in patients with moderate to severe head injury and different types of traum...

Severe head injuries in three countries.

Methods for assessing early characteristics and late outcome after severe head injury have been devised and applied to 700 cases in three countries (Scotland, Netherlands, and USA). There was a close similarity between the initial features of patients in the three series; in spite of differences on organisation of care and in details of management , the mortality was exactly the same in each co...

Severe Head Injuries in Children: Treatment of Long-range Outlook.

[Severe pediatric head injuries (I). Epidemiology, clinical manifestations and course].

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology, clinical manifestations and evolutive characteristics of pediatric patients with severe head injury (SHI). MATERIAL AND METHOD A review was made of the patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with SHI between July 1983 and December 2009. RESULTS Of the 389 patients with head injuries admitted to the PICU during the study period, ...