Articles: brain-injuries.
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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the principal cause of death and disability for young Americans, with an estimated societal cost of over $39 billion per year. The Defense and Veterans Head Injury Program (DVHIP) represents a close collaboration among the Departments of Defense (DoD) and Veterans Affairs (DVA), the Brain Injury Association (BIA), and the International Brain Injury Association (IBIA). ⋯ It is thus based on a prudent integration of clinical care and follow-up with programmatic clinical and clinically related laboratory research, TBI prevention, and education. This previously nonexistent clinical infrastructure now offers a valuable base for ongoing TBI clinical research.
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Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther · Oct 2000
[The treatment of severe head-brain injuries in Austria] .
We performed this study in order to assess epidemiology and current practice of treatment of severe traumatic brain injury in Austria. Our survey followed the methods of a study published by J. Ghajar et al in the USA in 1995 and we compared the results to the Brain Trauma Foundation's "Guidelines For The Management Of Severe Head Injury". ⋯ Results showed that there is a need for a brain trauma databank in Austria. We also recommend formation of an interdisciplinary brain trauma working group in order to control whether guidelines and standardized therapeutic modalities are being followed.
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Secondary brain injury results in increased morbidity and mortality in the traumatically brain-injured (TBI) patient. Research has shown that prevention of secondary brain injury, as characterized by cerebral ischemia and edema, can improve neurologic outcomes. ⋯ Scientifically, brain tissue oxygenation can be directly measured via the partial pressure of oxygen in brain tissue (PbO2) probe. This provides a rapid, potentially more accurate indicator of cerebral oxygenation, thereby allowing for earlier intervention into the prevention of secondary brain injury.