The objective of the present study is to synthesize and investigate using the same set of sixty-one real-world accidents the human head injury prediction capability of the head injury criterion (HIC) and the head impact power (HIP) based criterion as well as the injury mechanisms related criteria provided by the simulated injury monitor (SIMon) and the Louis Pasteur University (ULP) finite elem...

Head injury is a major cause of death and severe disability. 2 In the UK, mortality attributable to head injury was estimated at 7/100 000 in 1994, with most estimates of age specific hospital admission rates attributable to head injury ranging between 200–300/100 000. Children and young people seem to be at greatest relative risk. A peak in the age specific incidence of fatal or hospitalised h...

BACKGROUND Depressive symptoms are common and can be debilitating in the months after head injury. Head injury can also have long-term cognitive effects, but little is known about the long-term risk of depression associated with head injury. We investigated the lifetime rates of depressive illness 50 years after closed head injury. METHODS Participants were male World War II veterans who serv...

Abstract Background Head injuries are common injury in the fire service; however, very little data exist on risks this may pose to development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression high-risk population. Aims Our study aimed compare levels PTSD symptoms firefighters with a line-of-duty head injury, non-line-of-duty no injury. Methods In cross-sectional study, we assessed curren...

formula one legend michael schumacher hit his head severely while skiing on december 29, 2013. he was operated on for brain decompression and left in a coma fighting for life. in such severe brain injury with cerebral contusion and hemorrhage following head trauma, refractory to medical therapy and with increasing cerebral oedema and intracranial pressure, critically low cerebral perfusion can ...

As a complication in patients with head injury or cerebral stroke, gastrointestinal bleeding is an important problem in neurosurgery. We reviewed 411 cases of hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage, ruptured cerebral aneurysm and severe head injury in order to ascertain the pathologic condition of the gastrointestinal bleeding and to introduce an effective method of therapy. In 411 cases, gastro...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of clinically important traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) with severe injury mechanisms in children with minor blunt head trauma but with no other risk factors from the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) TBI prediction rules (defined as isolated severe injury mechanisms). DESIGN Secondary analysis of a large prospective observational...

The objective was to investigate the anatomical substrate of ataxia seen after severe head injury. Five patients were recruited from present and former inpatients at Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre. All patients had had a closed head injury and all had cerebellar type ataxia. Four normal controls were also studied. Brain MRI, clinical examination, computer based recording, and analysis of visuo...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to investigate the relationship between plasma cortisol levels and stress ulcer following acute severe head injury. PATIENTS AND METHODS The plasma cortisol levels were prospectively measured by radioimmunoassay in 68 patients following acute head injury. The diagnosis of stress ulcer was based on clinical evidence and was confirmed by endoscopic examination....

Isolated third cranial nerve palsies in head trauma patients can be the result of direct or indirect damage to the oculomotor nerve. They are usually associated with severe head trauma. We reported a case of isolated oculomotor nerve palsy associated with minor head injury. No initial loss of consciousness was recalled. Computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and magnetic re...