Anoxic Brain Injury and Neural Damage: Three Case Reports

Anoxic brain injury (ABI) is common and can occur in a wide variety of disorders. This neural injury is associated with significant and persistent cognitive impairments and poor functional outcomes, related in part to the severity of anoxia. Following ABI neuroimaging has been used diagnostically, but additional research needs to be done to predict rehabilitation outcomes. Patients with ABI have worse functional outcomes following rehabilitation that patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Among the different causes of brain anoxia, near drowning has the most severe prognosis. These case studies are based on the clinical observation of 3 children with ABI due to near drowning.