OBJECTIVES An ethnographic study of a peer-developed support group for persons with head injury was conducted to identify helping factors. These factors are the peer group experiences and processes, established theoretically and empirically, that provide support through self-help. METHOD The group comprised 13 members who regularly attended sessions for 16 months. In addition to participant o...

Patterned bruises are frequently noted on trauma victims. Although these bruises do not require any specific treatment, they provide objective evidence of impact. They also provide valuable clues to determining the impacting object, the mechanism of injury and have medico-legal importance. We present a case to illustrate and discuss the clinical utility of patterned bruises.

It is argued that an important aspect of rehabilitation after severe head injury lies in training or retraining victims in skills required for independent living. Despite this, very little is known about the training characteristics of head injured patients. It is shown that in the acquisition of a psychomotor skill severely head injured subjects have very poor starting levels as compared to no...

Given a lack of standardised procedures for preventing child abuse, what can be done in terms of thinking and action about the prevention of physical child abuse in health visiting and community practice? This paper reflects on knowledge gained while undertaking case series research into non-accidental head injury (NAHI), qualitative research with health visitors and mothers and fathers into th...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Present a critical review of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in children and adolescents, focusing on severe TBI, the mortality and the factors related with poor outcome. CONTENTS It was made a systematic review in MEDLINE, SciElo e Lilacs, with the key words: traumatic brain injury, craniocerebral trauma, children and mortality. The most important articles related in t...

This corrects the article on p. 1656 in vol. 31, PMID: 27550497.

WALPOLE LEWIN (Cambridge) stated that newer diagnostic methods might allow a better understanding of the several complications that followed head injury. Illustrations of these methods and their limitations were given. He expressed the view that the emphasis in the immediate future might well rest on the recognition that after head injury a dynamic process was set in train with resultant second...

Key Words Traumatic brain injury W Pre-and early clinical patient management W System analysis