Background: The present study assesses independent predictors of clinically important traumatic brain injury (ciTBI) in order to design a prognostic rule for identification of high risk children with mild head injury. Materials and Methods: In a retrospective cross-sectional study, 3,199 children with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) brought to emergency ward of three hospitals in Tehran, Iran...

Introduction: Cerebral edema could be caused by mild or moderate traumatic brain injury. The primary modality for cerebral is head computed tomography (CT), however the interpretation different between radiologists which due to subjectivity. purpose of this study determine radiologist interobserver and intraobserver reliability in on CT injury Sanglah General Hospital, Denpasar, Bali.Methods: R...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Traumatic brain injury is the leading cause of death in the pediatric population. The purpose of this review is to highlight recent contributions in evaluation, management, and predictors of outcome in pediatric traumatic brain injury. RECENT FINDINGS Advances have been made in defining the critical Glasgow Coma Score for predicting poor outcome and in developing the Relativ...

BACKGROUND Traumatic intracranial aneurysms are rare conditions that can be a result of non-penetrating head trauma. We report the occurrence of intracranial aneurysms in patients with traumatic brain injury. METHODS All diagnostic cerebral angiograms performed in patients with traumatic brain injury at a level I trauma center from January 2006 to July 2007 were reviewed. RESULTS Diagnostic...

BACKGROUND Head injury represents an extremely common presentation to emergency departments (ED), but not all patients present immediately after injury. There is evidence that clinical deterioration following head injury will usually occur within 24 h. It is unclear whether this means that head injury patients that present in a delayed manner, especially after 24 h, have a lower prevalence of s...

This article reviews the pathophysiology of mild traumatic brain injury, and the findings from EEG and quantitative EEG (QEEG) testing after such an injury. Research on the clinical presentation and pathophysiology of mild traumatic brain injury is reviewed with an emphasis on details that may pertain to EEG or QEEG and their interpretation. Research reports on EEG and QEEG in mild traumatic br...

8 patients with closed head injury with post concussional symptoms were compared with normal on both simple and choice reaction time. The choice reaction time was significantly prolonged in the head injury patients although in four patients the symptoms had lasted over 2 years after the head injury, indicating an etiological relationship to post traumatic syndrome.

BACKGROUND Despite several randomised controlled trials, there is still much debate whether nimodipine improves outcome in patients with traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage. A 2003 Cochrane review reported improved outcome with nimodipine in these patients; however, because the results of Head Injury Trial (HIT) 4 were only partly presented there is still discussion whether patients with traumat...