causes of head injury

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... used to categorise the severity of a head injury (see Table and Table 4) Table 2: Definition of mild, moderate and severe head injury by GCS score Degree of head injury Mild 13-15 Moderate 9-12 ... radiologists.11 A blinded comparison of interpretation of plain CT scans of the head performed out of hours for a variety of pathologies, of which the minority were head injuries, comparing senior ... a head injury The population of patients with a head injury is heterogeneous Studies tend to focus either on patients with mild head injury admitted largely for observation or more severe (head) ...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... quality of the blood-brain barrier has not been determined in this cohort of head- injured patients, due to the lack of matching serum samples for assessment of albumin levels, the source of elevated ... granted by the Institutional Animal Care Committee of the University of Zurich and of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem In the clinical part of the study on CHI patients, the mean IL-18 concentrations ... effects in the later phase after head injury [12] However, the assumptive underlying regulatory mechanisms of TNF-mediated neuroprotection and of TNF-mediated suppression of IL-18 in the injured brain...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury [19], which included control of body temperature, elevation of the head of the bed, seizure prophylaxis, avoidance of jugular outflow obstruction, ... order to identify and correct causes of non-ischemic hypoxia [18] The principal causes of low-extractivity hypoxia, such as anemia and hypoxemia, and the causes of high-affinity hypoxia (e.g ... design of the study, data collection, analysis, interpretation of data and writing of the manuscript FM actively participated in the conception and design of the study, interpretation of data...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... a flame burn injury and had 23% TBSA burn Inhalation injury was present in 20% of all admitted burns Figure Brain deaths Brain injury accounted for 16% of all deaths Anoxic brain injury accounted ... 14% of deaths with burns were in patients with burns less than 40% of their TBSA (minor burns) Of note, 22% of patients that died from brain injury had minor burns In addition, a quarter of patients ... multiple-organ failure These primary causes of death were obtained from the autopsy reports The occurrence of inhalation injury and sepsis was also reviewed Inhalation injury was diagnosed and confirmed...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... al: Treatment of post-concussion syndrome following mild head injury J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 2001, 23:829-36 Evans RW: The postconcussion syndrome and the sequela of mild head injury Neurol Clin ... the impact of early intervention on late sequelae Acta Neurochir 2007, 149:151-160 Stein SC, Spettel C: The head injury severity scale (HISS): a practical classification of closed head injury Neurosurgery ... mild traumatic brain injury: year follow up Brain Injury 2000, 14:219-226 Ponsford J, Willmott C, Rothwell A, et al: Impact of early intervention on outcome following mild head injury in adults J...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:21

... risk of bias; Red= high risk of bias; Blue = unclear risk of bias Risk of bias overall On the basis of 96 risk of bias judgements for the sample, 60% resulted in a definite categorisation of low ... Database of Systematic Reviews, The Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness, Health Technology Assessments, NHS Economic Evaluation Database, The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled ... fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (D.Clin.Psy) Institute of Health and Wellbeing College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences University of Glasgow...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 16:46

... Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S Department of Justice Points of view in this document not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S Department of Justice ... in intimate partner homicide offenders, whichever partner is killed About 40% of murder offenders report that they had been drinking at the time of the offense, and of these, 90% had a blood alcohol ... (1980:106) found: 10 the killing of someone in close relationship to the offender, often a wife, appeared to be part of the evolving process of suicide In recognition of this research, a question...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 23:20

... review of the state of the science regarding environmental and occupational causes of cancer, we conducted a review of the peer-reviewed literature, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL CAUSES OF CANCER: ... Identification of carcinogenic agents and primary prevention of cancer, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2006; 1076:1-14 145 Doll R, Peto R The causes of cancer: quantitative estimates of avoidable ... understanding regarding the state of the science Our summary of the epidemiologic evidence regarding occupational and environmental causes of cancer over the past number of years presents the overall...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

... Collacott Prof Barry Cooper Prof Steve Easton Prof Herb Emery Prof Tom Flanagan Gordon Gibson Dr Herbert Grubel Prof Ron Kneebone Prof Rainer Knopff Dr Owen Lippert Prof Ken McKenzie Prof Jean-Luc ... to be: zinc—10% of women/men older than 50; iron—25% of menstruating women and 5% of women over 50; vitamin C—25% of women/men; folate—50% of women and 25% of men; vitamin B—10% of women/men; vitamin ... Misconceptions about the causes of cancer Summary The major avoidable causes of cancer are: (1) smoking, which accounts for 27% of cancer deaths in Canada and 80% to 90% of deaths from lung cancer;...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20

... include:  number of involved nodes  level of involved nodes  extracapsular spread of tumour   type of nodal dissection  size of largest tumour mass 11 diagnosis and management of head and neck ... symptoms and risks of head and neck cancer should be available in primary care Analysis of the impact of a campaign on public awareness of oral cancer, launched by the West of Scotland Cancer ... Overview of treatment of the primary tumour and neck This section addresses the first line treatment of head and neck cancer Management of recurrent tumour is discussed in section The aim of treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20

... societies It is one of the leading causes of death in the world and is still increasing, particularly in developing countries Almost seven million people die each year of cancer, and many of these deaths ... oesophagus, and kidney cancers The incidence of stomach cancer has gone down because of reduced intake of salt and improved living conditions Source: IARC 2000 CAUSES OF CANCER 12 WHO P.Virot Total: 37% ... second leading cause of death in developed countries and is among the three leading causes of death for adults in developing countries Western Europe 475,100 264,700 210,400 12.5% of all deaths are...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 05:20

... Association xii ABBREVIATIONS OCD Office of Child Development OE Office of Education OEO Office of Economic Opportunity OPED Office of Programs for Education of the Disadvantaged PPB Planning-Programming-Budgeting ... Improvement of Early Read ing Achievement at the University of Michigan under the leadership of Susan Neuman commissioned me to write an analysis of the Carter administration's attempts to transfer Head ... collection of documents and reflections on the early phases titled Project Head Start: A Legacy of the War on Poverty Other scholars have devoted surprisingly little attention to the origins of Head...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 20:20

... similar underlying causes To ignore this latter group is to impose a form of right-hand censoring; but, of course, the identities of the banks in this latter group could not be known as of year-end ... to write off half the value of its bad loans There were 148 such banks as of year-end 2009 10 Thus, we place 265 (117 + 148) in the FAIL category 11 10 It is worth noting that of the 57 of the ... importance of construction loans (as of 2008) appear to be relatively modest Logit Regression Results In Table are the results of a set of logistic regression models that provide the main results of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20

... Director, Office of Energy Research, Office of Health and Environmental Research of the U.S Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC03-76SF00098 to L.S.G., and the National Institute of Environmental ... The major causes of cancer are: a) Smoking: About a third of U.S cancer (90 percent of lung cancer); b) Dietary imbalances, e.g., lack of dietary fruits and vegetables: The quarter of the population ... the prevention and repair of DNA damage, and thus are important to the maintenance of long term health Deficiency of vitamin B12 (found in percent of the U.S population) causes a functional folate...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... cancer or suspected of causing cancer To summarize the current scientific literature on causes of human cancer, we rely on a combination of reviews of epidemiologic studies of groups of individuals ... derivative of 2naphthylamine previously used in the treatment of polycythemia), as well as the manufacturing of auramine and magenta dye are well-established causes of bladder cancer, and one of the ... review of epidemicologic studies of exposure to trichloroethylene (TCE) yields evidence of increased risk of cervical cancer.58 Studies of dry cleaning workers also demonstrate an increased risk of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:20

... Reserve Board, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight ... its causes, we also present specific conclusions at the end of chapters in Parts III, IV, and V of this report The subject of this report is of no small consequence to this nation The profound ... was headed for a cataclysmic downturn In , she laid off some of her staff in order to cut her overhead expenses, in anticipation of the coming storm; two years later, she shut down her office...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:22

... STAGING OF HEAD AND NECK CANCER Committee for Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology American Academy of Otolaryngology– Head and Neck Surgery Neck Dissection Classification Committee American Head ... advent of IMRT, it is also very important for the clinician to be acutely aware of radiologic anatomy (levels of nodal disease, pathways of loco-regional spread of tumor, and delineation of postoperative ... American Head and Neck Society Committee acknowledges the input from the Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology Committee and the Head and Neck Surgery Education Committee of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 00:20

... areas of metastatic disease in patients with head and neck cancer should include: number of involved nodes level of involved nodes extracapsular spread of tumour type of nodal dissection size of ... tumours of the: base of tongue tonsil soft palate Oral cavity cancer includes tumours of the: buccal mucosa retromolar triangle alveolus hard palate anterior two-thirds of tongue floor of mouth ... aware of the presenting features of head and neck cancer, and the local referral pathways for suspected cancers Dental practitioners should include a full examination of the oral mucosa as part of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20