Traumatic Brain Injury (eBook)

Pieter E. Vos, Department of Neurology, Radbound University, Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

List of contributors vii

Preface x

Acknowledgments xii

Part I: Introduction and imaging

1 The clinical problem of traumatic head injury 3

Ramon Diaz-Arrastia and Pieter E. Vos

2 Neuroimaging in traumatic brain injury 13

Pieter E. Vos Carlos Marquez de la Plata and Ramon
Diaz-Arrastia

Part II: Prehospital and ED care

3 Out-of-hospital management in traumatic brain injury 45

Peter R.G. Brink

4 Emergency department evaluation of mild traumatic brain injury
55

Noel S. Zuckerbraun C. Christopher King and Rachel P.
Berger

5 In-hospital observation for mild traumatic brain injury
71

Pieter E. Vos and Dafin F. Muresanu

Part III: In hospital

6 ICU care: surgical and medical management--indications
for immediate surgery 89

Peter S. Amenta and Jack Jallo

7 ICU care: surgical and medical management--neurological
monitoring and treatment 115

Luzius A. Steiner

8 ICU care: surgical and medical management--systemic
treatment 134

Lori Shutter

Part IV: Rehabilitation

9 Rehabilitation of cognitive deficits after traumatic brain
injury 165

Philippe Azouvi and Claire Vallat-Azouvi

Part V: Postacute care and community in reintegration

10 Epidemiology of traumatic brain injury 183

Ramon Diaz-Arrastia and Kimbra Kenney

11 Neuropsychiatric and behavioral sequelae 192

Kathleen F. Pagulayan and Jesse R. Fann

12 Follow-up and community integration of mild traumatic brain
injury 211

Joukje van der Naalt and Joke M. Spikman

Index 226