Imaging Evaluation of Acute Traumatic Brain Injury

Imaging of Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) represents an enormous public health challenge and is often associated with life long neurobehavioral sequelae in survivors. Several factors including higher percentages of individuals surviving TBI, as well as increasing concern about potential long term sequelae of even relatively mild injuries is changing the role of neuroimaging in the management of this conditi...

P22: Traumatic Brain Injury

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Imaging in traumatic brain injury

Conventional imaging of the injured brain relies on X-ray CT, with the Marshall score commonly use to grade the severity of injury. CT is very useful at identifying skull and facial trauma, characterizing surgical lesions, and providing evidence of significant brain swelling that contributes to intracranial hypertension. However, there is increasing recognition that CT may be an inadequate mean...

Traumatic Brain Injury – Acute Care

W1: Animal Models of Traumatic Brain Injury

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