Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the leading cause of death and disability for children and young adults. The Glasgow Coma Scale allows to classify TBI as mild, moderate and severe. Imaging studies show the heterogeneity of the diagnosis. Primary injury is caused by mechanical impact. Secondary injury con...
Lesiones Traumáticas del Encéfalo/terapia,
Lesiones Traumáticas del Encéfalo/complicaciones,
Anestesia/métodos,
Lesiones Traumáticas del Encéfalo/fisiopatología,
Lesiones Traumáticas del Encéfalo/clasificación,
Cuidados Preoperatorios,
Monitoreo Fisiológico,
Manejo de la Vía Aérea,
Hemodinámica,
Glucemia,
Temperatura Corporal,
Anticonvulsivantes/uso terapéutico,
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Adulto jovem de 18 anos que evoluiu após traumatismo
craniencefálico leve com fístula carotídea direta. Apresentou
zumbido e exoftalmia, ambos de característica pulsátil
e à esquerda. Foi submetido a estudo com Doppler das
carótidas, que mostrou elevadas velocidades do fluxo
sanguíneo e índices...
Objetivo: analisar a evolução das vítimas de traumatismo cranioencefálico contuso na sala de emergência e identificar fatores independentes para tempo de permanência nesse serviço. Método: coorte prospectiva que incluiu todas as vítimas que atenderam aos critérios de elegibilidade e foram admi...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major public health problem inWestern countries. ATBI
brings many negative consequences, including behavioral and cognitive changes,
which affect social adjustment and the performance of functional activities. Cognitive
evaluation after TBI is a complex issue in what per...
Introduction: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is the most common cause of disability in young patients. In the self-awareness deficits that can arise after TBI, patients experience difficulties in understanding the disabilities resulting from their injury. This is an important problem that aff...
Introducción: El traumatismo craneoencefálico corresponde a cambios y alteraciones que sufre el encéfalo, sus envolturas meníngeas, la bóveda craneal o los tejidos blandos epicraneales por la acción de agentes físicos vulnerantes. Objetivo: Identificar los factores de riesgo modificables y no m...
Objetivos: Analizar y establecer una asociación entre las características del Traumatismo Craneoencefálico (TEC) grave en pediatría (edad, etiología, características clínicas, lesiones intracraneales y cirugía) y los resultados a largo plazo.
Material y Método: Revisión de los pacientes con TEC...
Hypopituitarism after moderate or severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) is usually underdiagnosed and therefore undertreated. Its course can be divided in an acute phase during the first 14 days after TBI with 50 to 80% risk of hypopituitarism, and a chronic phase, beginning three months after the event, w...
Introduction Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of mortality around the world.
Few advances regarding surgical approaches have been made in the past few years to
improve its outcomes. Microsurgical cisternostomy is a well-established technique used in
vascular and skull base surgery and recent...
