Traumatic brain injury is one of the most difficult and challenging management problems facing clinicians. Research is increasingly clarifying the underlying physiological mechanisms involved in neuronal damage, offering the chance of better methods of diagnosis and treatment.
This second edition of Head Injury contains detailed coverage of basic mechanisms and investigations, and has been fully revised and updated with increased clinical content and particular emphasis on the fast-moving areas of neuromonitoring and neuroprotection.
The book provides a complete management framework for traumatic brain injury, with sections on the mechanisms of injury, measuring and monitoring the injury, and treatment. New chapters include pediatric head injury, missile wounds, outcome prediction and brain death, and detailed guidelines-based management algorithms are provided in the appendices.
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" ... this is an excellent and comprehensive book that I thoroughly enjoyed reading. It provided me with excellent continuing medical education and many of the individual chapters would be of great practical value to anaesthetists and intensivists who are regularly involved with the management of patients with head injury. It warrants a place on the shelves of medical libraries in hospitals with trauma centres and neurosurgical units. All intensive care units involved in the management of head injuries should have a copy."
British Journal of Anaesthesia 95 (4): 563-5
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100 b/w line drawings, 100 b/w halftones, 70 colour halftones
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Höhe: 276 mm
Breite: 210 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-340-80724-8 (9780340807248)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Peter L Reilly MD BMedSc FRACS is Professor and Director of Neurosurgery at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia
Ross Bullock MD PhD is Reynolds Professor in the Harold F Young Department of Neurological Surgery, Medical College of Virginia, USA
Section 1: The Injury
1. Epidemiology
2. Biomechanics of Closed Head Injury
3. Pathology
4. Primary and Secondary Brain Injury
5. Intracranial Pressure and Elastance
6. Injury and Cell Function
Section 2: Measuring and Monitoring Injury
7. Clinical Examination and Grading
8. Alcohol, other Drugs and Head Injury
9. Imaging the Injury
10. Monitoring Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
11. Electrical Function Monitoring
12. Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Section 3: Treatment
13. From Accident Site to Trauma Centre
14. The Intensive Care Management of Head Injury
15. Sedation and Anaesthesia in Head Injury
16. Management of intracranial pressure and cerebral perfusion pressure
17. Paediatric Head Injury
18. The Role of Surgery for intracranial mass lesions after head injury
19. Missile Wounds of the Head
20. Neuroprotection in Traumatic Brain Injury
21. Outcome after Severe Head Injury
22. Outcome Prediction after Severe Head Injury
23. Brain Death - Clinical and Confirmatory Tests
Appendices
A: Antibiotic therapy for CNS infections
B: Seizure management in acute head injury
C: Possible causes of status epilepticus after head injury
D: Cardiovascular drugs used to augment cerebral perfusion pressure
