Head Injury

Peter C. Whitfield is a Consultant Neurosurgeon and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the South West Neurosurgery Centre, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Plymouth, UK. Elfyn O. Thomas is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at Derriford Hospital, Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust, Plymouth, UK. Fiona Summers is a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK. Maggie Whyte is a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK. Peter J. Hutchinson is a Senior Academy Fellow and Honorary Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Academic Neurosurgical Unit, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK.

Dedication; Contents; List of contributors; Foreword Sir Graham Teasdale; 1. Epidemiology of head injury Giles Critchley and Anjum Memon; 2. The neuropathology of head injury David A. Hilton; 3. Experimental models of traumatic brain injury H. C. Patel; 4. Clinical assessment of the head injured patient: an anatomical approach Deva S. Jeyaretna and Peter C. Whitfield; 5. Neuroimaging in trauma Clare N. Gallagher and Jonathan Cole; 6. Scoring systems for trauma and head injury Maralyn Woodford and Fiona Lecky; 7. Early phase care of patients with mild and minor head injury Chris Maimaris; 8. Early phase care of patients with moderate and severe head injury Duncan McAuley; 9. Interhospital transfer of head injured patients Gareth Allen and Peter Farling; 10. Principles of head injury intensive care management Martin Smith; 11. Intracranial pressure monitoring in head injury Ruwan Alwis Weerakkody, Marek Czosnyka, Rikin A. Trivedi and Peter J. Hutchinson; 12. Multimodality monitoring in head injury I. Timofeev, Adel Helmy, Egidio J. da Silva, Arun K. Gupta, Peter J. Kirkpatrick and Peter J. Hutchinson; 13. Therapeutic options in neurocritical care: optimizing brain physiology Rowan Burnstein and Joseph Carter; 14. Therapeutic options in neurocritical care: beyond the brain Matthew J. C. Thomas, Alexander R. Manara, Richard Protheroe and Ayan Sen; 15. Brainstem death and organ donation Martin B. Walker; 16. Anaesthesia for emergency neurosurgery W. Hiu Lam; 17. Surgical issues in the management of head injured patients Puneet Plaha and Peter C. Whitfield; 18. Craniofacial trauma: injury patterns and management Paul McArdle; 19. Cranioplasty after head injury Heinke Pülhorn and Robert Redfern; 20. Neurosurgical complications of head injury Peter C. Whitfield and Laurence Watkins; 21. Paediatric head injury management Patrick Mitchell; 22. The principles of rehabilitation after head injury Jonathan J. Evans and Maggie Whyte; 23. Acute rehabilitation of the head injured patient Bruce Downey, Thérèse Jackson, Judith Fewings and Ann-Marie Pringle; 24. Post-acute and community rehabilitation of the head injured patient Jonathan J. Evans, Maggie Whyte, Fiona Summers, Lorna Torrens, William W. McKinlay, Susan Dutch, Thérèse Jackson, Judith Fewings, Ann-Marie Pringle, Bruce Downey and Jane V. Russell; 25. Neuropsychology and head injury Maggie Whyte, Fiona Summers, Camilla Herbert, William W. McKinlay, Lorna Torrens, Roisin Jack and Jane V. Russell; 26. Outcome and prognosis after head injury Helen M. K. Gooday, Brian Pentland, Fiona Summers and Maggie Whyte; 27. Medico-legal aspects of head and neck injury Peter J. Hutchinson and Peter C. Whitfield; Index.