Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) or also known as a head injury is one of the leading causes death among young people and health problems defined impact, penetration, rapid movement brain within skull that can result in changes mental status often referred to silent epidemic. Head injuries electrophysiological abnormalities seen on electroencephalography (EEG) recordings. Electroencephalography was...

Chinese Head Trauma Data Bank shows that the mortality and unfavorable outcome of patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) (Glasgow Coma Scale 3e8) are 27.23% and 53.17% respectively, which is really comparable to the outcome of severe TBI patients according to the American Head Trauma Coma Bank and European Head Trauma Data Bank. This indicates that the outcome of severe TBI in China ...

BACKGROUND Virtually all the literature on head injury has focused on the outcome prediction of severe and mild head injuries and very few studies have been dedicated to patients sustaining moderate head injuries. AIM To identify the patient following moderate head injury who may die, develop severe disability or significant cognitive and behavioral problems on the first day of injury itself....

BACKGROUND Pre-hospital endotracheal intubation for the purpose of controlled ventilation may prevent secondary brain injury in patients with severe head injury. In view of the limited monitoring devices utilized in the pre-hospital setting, little is known about the 'quality' of controlled ventilation initiated in the pre-hospital setting. METHODS Included in this prospective study were 122 ...