Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an increasingly recognized and theoretically preventable condition. In fact PTSD is a mental disorder that can develop after a person is exposed to a traumatic event or threats, such as war and traffic crashes. Symptoms may include distressing thoughts and increased arousal. These signs last for more than one month after the event. People with PTSD are a...

OBJECTIVE To assess how euthanasia in terminally ill cancer patients affects the grief response of bereaved family and friends. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING Tertiary referral centre for oncology patients in Utrecht, the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS 189 bereaved family members and close friends of terminally ill cancer patients who died by euthanasia and 316 bereaved family members a...

in this survey, 600 autopsy files from legal medicine center were reviewed to find out the cause of death in traumatic patients. the results are presented by age, gender, type of trauma and cause of death. the most common type of trauma is vehicle accidents and 70% of subjects are males. trauma resulting in death is most common ing third decade of life

BACKGROUND Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) have been frequently used to explore changes in motor cortex excitability in stroke and traumatic brain injury, while the extent of motor cortex reorganization in patients with diffuse non-traumatic brain injury remains largely unknown. OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS It was hypothesized that the motor cortex excitability would be decreased and would co...

OBJECTIVE To discover the expression of visfatin and its genetic mutation and clinical significance in patients with traumatic brain injury. METHODS 99 cases of traumatic brain injury patients admitted to Chongqing Emergency Medical Center from June 2013 to December 2014. There were 56 male and 43 female with an average age of 45.2 years. Through diagnosis, the 99 patient's conditions were al...

Abstract BACKGROUND Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) refers to positive psychological changes resulting from a traumatic event. A brain cancer diagnosis may be experienced as traumatic—not only for patients, but also their caregivers. While caregivers in neuro-oncology consistently report significant emotional distress throughout the disease trajectory, experience of PTG is unknown. METHODS Cross-sec...

Objective: To investigate the relationship between CT features and serum GFAP, NSE and S100B protein in patients with severe traumatic brain injury. Methods: 80 patients with traumatic brain injury admitted in our hospital from January 2016 to January 2017 were selected and divided into mild (n=31), medium (n=28) and severe (21) according to their CT scores. The level difference between the thr...

OBJECTIVE To develop and test a clinical protocol for determining post-traumatic amnesia by retrospective questioning. To establish its limits and factors which influence reliability. DESIGN Two independent assessments using the Rivermead post-traumatic amnesia protocol were undertaken by separate observers on various groups of patients at various time intervals. Analysis investigated the cor...

BACKGROUND It is known that the risk of death in elderly patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury is increased. However, the relationship between mild traumatic brain injury and death has never been established. We investigated the mortality rates of older patients with mild traumatic brain injury in Taiwan to evaluate if there is a higher risk of death compared with the general ...