Traumatic Brain Injury Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes

• Other Authors: Badenes, Rafael (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Medicine; Clinical & internal medicine; traumatic brain injury; scoring system; modified early warning score; mortality; psychometric properties; patient-reported outcome measures; classical test theory; translation; linguistic validation; outcome instruments; cerebral oximetry; near-infrared spectroscopy; cerebrovascular autoregulation; intracranial pressure; acute brain injury; early tracheostomy; late tracheostomy; tracheostomy timing; ventilatory acquired pneumonia; prehospital; oxygenation; hypoxia; hyperoxia; emergency medical services; osmolality; traumatic brain injury (TBI); hypertonic saline; mannitol; osmolar gap; brain death; death by neurologic criteria; cerebral blood flow; CT angiography; CT perfusion; COVID-19 pandemic; treatment efficiency; emergency department; seizure; QTc interval; spatial QTS-T angle; brain-heart interaction; cranioplasty; cognitive improvement; neuropsychology
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As many of you already know, traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a growing public health problem of substantial proportions. More than 50 million TBIs occur internationally each year. Across all ages, TBI represents 30-40% of all injury-related deaths, and neurological injury is projected to remain the...