BACKGROUND The management of minor and moderate head trauma in children differs widely between countries. Presently, there are no existing guidelines for management of these children in Scandinavia. The purpose of this study was to produce new evidence-based guidelines for the initial management of head trauma in the paediatric population in Scandinavia. The primary aim was to detect all childr...

Trauma patients are at high risk of cervical and associated injuries. The standard protocol includes immobilization of the cervical spine in a polytrauma as it will help to prevent spinal injuries in the prehospital settings. Hard cervical collar (or alternatives) is routinely used until the cervical spine clearance is obtained . In patients with traumatic brain injury avoiding any kind of mane...

The Purdue Neurotrauma Group began in 2009 to study causes and consequences of concussion in youth athletes in an effort to understand why, in a two-player collision that produced a diagnosed injury, it was only one— rather than each—athlete that evidenced symptoms. Our work applies the concept of structural health monitoring (Bond et al. 2014; Kim et al. 2014), without intervention, to charact...

1 Gilad G, Gilad V. Polyamines in neurotrauma. Ubiquitous molecules in search of a function. Biochem Phannacol 1992;44:401-7. 2 Shohami E, Nates JL, Glantz L, et al. Changes in brain polyamine concentrations following head injury. Exp Neurol 1992;117:189-95. 3 Koski P, Helander IM, Sarvas M, Vaara M. Analysis of polyamines as their dabsyl derivatives by reversed phase high performance liquid ch...

1 Gilad G, Gilad V. Polyamines in neurotrauma. Ubiquitous molecules in search of a function. Biochem Phannacol 1992;44:401-7. 2 Shohami E, Nates JL, Glantz L, et al. Changes in brain polyamine concentrations following head injury. Exp Neurol 1992;117:189-95. 3 Koski P, Helander IM, Sarvas M, Vaara M. Analysis of polyamines as their dabsyl derivatives by reversed phase high performance liquid ch...

Neurotrauma in the form of traumatic brain injury (TBI) afflicts more Americans annually than Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease combined, yet few researchers have used neuroproteomics to investigate the underlying complex molecular events that exacerbate TBI. Discussed in this review is the methodology needed to explore the neurotrauma proteome-from the types of samples used to the mass spect...