predicting hypotensive episodes in the traumatic brain injury domain

... management. At present, in the absence of prospective randomized controlled trials to prove the role of decompressive craniectomy in the treatment of traumatic brain injury, these technical improvements ... Key words: Decompressive Craniectomy, Traumatic Brain Injury Introduction Decompressive craniectomy, which is performed worldwide for the treatme...

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... Neuroinflammation Open Access Research Inhibition < /b> of < /b> the < /b> alternative < /b> complement < /b> activation < /b> pathway < /b> in < /b> traumatic < /b> brain < /b> injury < /b> by < /b> a < /b> monoclonal < /b> anti-factor < /b> B antibody: a < /b> randomized placebo-controlled study in < /b> mice Iris ... expression. Conclusion: Inhibition < /b> o...

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... neurological deficit, neuroinflammation and cerebral metabolism in rats with diffuse traumatic brain injury Edwin B Yan 1,2† , Sarah C Hellewell 1,3† , Bo-Michael Bellander 4 , Doreen A Agyapomaa 1,3 and M ... in traumatic axonal injury rats with or without hypoxia. Brain water content was determined at 2, 24, 48, 72 and 96 h post-injury, and calculate...

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... Lyeth BG: Cognitive impairment following traumatic brain injury: the effects of pre- and post -injury administration of scopolomine and MK-801. Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 1993, 1:223-226. 31. Phillips ... changes and the role of GABA receptors. Normal neuronal function relies on the constant orchestration and integration of excitatory and inhibitory pote...

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... 4 of 28 RESEARC H ARTIC LE Open Access Communication patterns in a psychotherapy following traumatic brain injury: A quantitative case study based on symbolic dynamics Paul E Rapp 1* , Christopher ... traumatic brain injury. Brain Injury 1996, 10:319-327. 7. Ashman TA, Spielman SA, Hibbard MR, Silver JM, Chandna T, Gordon WA: Psychiatric challenges in...

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... Hirashima Y, Nakamura S, Endo S, Kuwayama N, Naruse Y, Takaku A: Elevation of platelet activating factor, inflammatory cytokines, and coagulation factors in the internal jugular vein of patients ... cardiovascular failure is a poor discriminator of outcome rather than SOFA overcalling cardiovascular failure due to vasopressor use for cerebrovas- cular support. In genera...

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... traffic accidents are the leading cause of fatal and non-fatal injuries in Vietnam. The purpose of this study is to estimate the costs, in the first year post -injury, of non-fatal traumatic brain injury ... reflected the level of severity (Figure 2). In term of intangible costs, the health related quality of life of the patients in the first...

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... number of brain- injured patients. The overall results indicated convincingly that intensive glycemic control was beneficial, and subsequent post-hoc analysis indicated that intensive glycemic control ... used. The results are complex and do not indicate that Commentary Intensive glycemic control in traumatic brain injury: what is the ideal glucose ran...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... thiopental in the treatment of refractory intracranial hypertension in patients with traumatic brain injury: a randomized controlled trial Jon Pérez-Bárcena 1,2 , Juan A Llompart-Pou 1 , Javier ... percentage of the total number of cases each day. Figure 1 AUC of ICP dataAUC of ICP data. Presented are areas under the curve (AUCs) of the in...

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... GLUT1 transporter in the blood -brain barrier after severe TBI decreases endothelial flux Commentary Optimizing cerebral glucose in severe traumatic brain injury: still some way to go Cameron Zahed ... many years, optimizing cerebral glucose in acute brain injury has more recently attracted the interest of physicians involved in neurocritical care. The key...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... first study documenting the inci- dence of hypernatremia during the ICU stay in severe TBI patients. The definition of hypernatremia in our study refers to the first 14 days of ICU stay, and it ... been specifically aimed at investigating the incidence and clinical significance of hypernatremia occurring during the course of the ICU stay in a large...

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... undertaken by the IMPACT study group towards development of standardization were integrated in the US into a much larger interagency initiative towards ‘an integra- ted approach to research in psychological ... capturing the frequency distribution of measured values during continuous monitoring and further research into the best approaches to analysis. These developments m...

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... The added value of ordinal analysis in clinical trials: an example in traumatic brain injury. Critical Care 2011 15:R127. Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: ... were non-significant, those obtained with ordinal analysis were highly significant. With ordinal analysis, a 2- to 2.5-fold gain in information density was dem...

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... useful early warning which matches the current state of the art in the traumatic brain injury (TBI) domain. In many areas of modern society there is an interest in predicting the probability of an ... Glasgow Theses Service http://theses.gla.ac.uk/ theses@gla.ac.uk Donald, Rob (2014) Predicting hypotensive episodes in the traumatic brain inj...

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