BACKGROUND Our aim was to analyze prognostic factors and their association with outcome among children with severe head injury. METHODS We conducted a retrospective study among children (n=55) with severe head injury [Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) ?8] who were admitted to our Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit (ICU) from January 1996 to September 2003. The patients were immediately evaluated with c...

Objective Head injury is the main cause of death and severe disability in bicycle-related injuries. The purpose of this study was to compare the demographic characteristics and injury mechanisms of bicycle-related head injuries according to the severity and outcome and determine the main risk factors and common types of accompanying injuries. Methods A total of 205 patients who were admitted ...

Acute head injury Epidemiology In the United Kingdom more than 150,000 patients are admitted to hospital each year with an acute head injury. Of this group more than 80% are classified as having a mild head injury, as defined by the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). Approximately 1-2% of patients admitted to hospital after traumatic brain injury die as a consequence of their injuries with the majority ...

SYNOPSIS The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) was administered to two matched groups of severely head-injured patients. The first administration was early in the recovery period, when group I was still in post-traumatic amnesia. The WAIS results for this group were significantly lower than those of group II, who were fully conscious. A follow-up at a later stage of recovery found that g...

motor vehicle and falling down are responsible for the most number of traumatic injuries. this study aimed to compare the characteristics of traumatic brain injury among accident and falling down cases. in this analytical cross- sectional study, data were collected from the records of cadavers who died due to accident or falling down and referred to kahrizak dissection hall, tehran forensic med...

background: to determine the prevalence of incidental findings on brain ct scan in mild head trauma patients. methods: from november 2005 to april 2006, we evaluated 732 ct scans of cases with mild head trauma (glasgow coma scale score of thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen), whom referred to our university affiliated hospital. in this study, we evaluated incidental findings on brain ct of our pati...

Over the past three years 15 children have been admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) at Addenbrooke's hospital suspected of having non-accidental injuries; presentation was diverse and often mild and out of proportion to the degree of morbidity seen at discharge and follow up. When compared with a group of similar aged children admitted to the PICU with severe head injury cause...

We demonstrate that in head injuries the degree of cerebral endothelial activation or injury depends on the type of brain injury and the patients age, and that in severe head injuries measuring the serum levels of thrombomodulin (TM) and von Willebrand factor (vWF) is useful in evaluating cerebral endothelial injury and activation. The values of vWF in the cases of focal brain injury were signi...