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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Severe Traumatic Brain Injury"”.
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Intracranial Monitoring after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Intracranial monitoring after severe traumatic brain injury offers the possibility for early detection and amelioration of physiological insults. In this thesis, I explore cerebral insults due raised intracranial pressure, decreased cerebral perfusion pressure and impaired cerebral pressure …
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The Experience Of Family Resilience Through Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
<p>Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability. Of these injuries, severe TBI (STBI) causes the most profound and long-term disabilities. The experience of STBI has been shown to affect the entire family. Social work professionals need to be aware of the experience of …
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Working Memory Differences in Pediatric Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury is one of the leading causes of disability and impairment in children and adolescents. This study sought to determine the effects of severity on verbal working memory and verbal short-term memory. It was hypothesized that increased severity of injury would be associated with …
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The impact of barbiturate therapy in children with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI)
… intracranial pressure (ICP) in children with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Specifically, evidence is limited on the use of barbiturate therapy as a second-tier treatment option for uncontrolled ICP in children, in part because cohort sizes are small and there are little data on …
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Use of an integrated multimodal communication treatment with individuals with severe traumatic brain injury
<p>People affected by severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) often live with co-occurring speech and language deficits, including apraxia of speech and dysarthria. Using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies (e.g., gesturing, writing, speech generating devices and applications) …
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Attention Training following Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Adults: A Systematic Review
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant contributor to trauma-related mortality and morbidity globally. The high burden of disease for TBI is not only attributable to high incidence rates, but also due to the extensive and often severe post-TBI multi-domain sequelae, of which attentional …
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Investigating cerebrovascular pressure reactivity in a large cohort of children with severe traumatic brain injury
Introduction: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) contributes to worldwide death and disability more than any other traumatic event, but it is of particular concern in children in developing resource-scarce countries. Cerebral autoregulation (CA) is a homeostatic mechanism that aims to maintain constant …
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Multiple Perspectives, One Decision: An Ethnographic Study of Life Support Withdrawal After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
… case involving withdrawal of life support after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) underscores the cultural contexts, national, biomedical, and local, in which medical decisions are made. The contributions of this project are threefold: (1) contextualization of clinical neuropsychology, (2) …
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Outcomes of decompressive craniectomy in adults with severe traumatic brain injury: the Groote Schuur Hospital experience
… decompressive craniectomy in adults with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a South African neurosurgical unit. Methods: During a 78 month period (January 2005 – June 2011), 76 patients that underwent decompressive craniectomy for TBI in an attempt to lower raised intracranial pressure …
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The Effectiveness of EEG Biofeedback and Cognitive Rehabilitation as Treatments for Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
… applied to assist with the sequelae following traumatic brain injury (TBI). Such techniques have been well established within the literature. More recently, an increasing body of research has emerged suggesting that electroencephalography (EEG) biofeedback is an effective intervention for …
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Everyday Tragedies: People with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in the Liminal Spaces of a Level I Trauma Centre
Sustaining a severe traumatic brain injury (sTBI) can have a devastating and permanent impact on a person’s ability to function, on their selfhood, on their families, and on the spaces where they can exist in the world. Individuals with sTBI in Ontario are often transported to Level I Trauma …
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The effect of induced normothermia on the outcomes of severe traumatic brain injury patients at Boston Medical Center
The objective of this work was to evaluate the efficacy of an induced normothermia protocol by comparing patient mortality and outcomes in patients treated at Boston Medical Center (BMC) before and after the implementation of the protocol. The controls (regular fever management) and the cases …
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The effect of intensive care nursing interventions on the intracranial pressure in children with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury
… the intracranial pressure (ICP) in children with traumatic brain injury. Design Prospective observational study over three years. Setting Single tertiary paediatric intensive care unit in the North West of England. Patients Twenty five children with moderate to severe closed traumatic brain injury …
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The development of two novel interhemispheric transfer time tasks and application within a pilot paediatric moderate severe traumatic brain injury cohort
… sustained during and following moderate or severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) as it can interrupt normal childhood development. Our ability to assess functional outcomes in the post-acute phase of injury is still limited, but imperative for appropriate prognosis and allocation of resources …
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Outcome in the first year following severe traumatic brain injury: a New Zealand study of the impact on patients and their primary caregivers
… project describes the first year following severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) for 84 adults and their primary caregivers. Study 1 examines the utility of a measure of severity of injury, somatosensory evoked potentials (SEP), in predicting the 1 year outcome for 76 patients. Study 2 …
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Multimodality monitoring in paediatric severe traumatic brain injury : the contributions of brain oxygen, transcranial doppler and autoregulation monitoring to conventional methods on monitoring
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a highly complex clinical condition in the most complex organ of the body. The foundation of care of the patient with severe TBI is the prevention of secondary insults to the brain. This relies on conventional monitoring tools to identify patients at risk, but often …
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Co-creating and Implementing a Community-Based Peer-Assisted Physical Activity Program to Promote Exercise and Sport Participation after Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability around the world, and moderate-to-severe TBI may result in long-term or lifelong sequelae that prevent individuals from returning to a pre-injury way of functioning. Physical activity (PA; e.g., exercise and sport) demonstrates …
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Exploring factors that influence academic and behavioural outcome and the specific role of premorbid functioning, in a sample of children with severe traumatic brain injury
Children who have sustained severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) demonstrate a range of deficits in neurocognitive and behavioural domains (Anderson, Northam, Hendy, &Wrennall, 2001; Babikian & Asarnow, 2009; van’t Hooft, 2010). These impairments may have adverse effects on academic and behavioural …
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Vertex-Based Analysis of Cerebral Blood Flow and Fractional Amplitude of Low-Frequency Fluctuations (CBF-fALFF) Coupling in Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury During the First Year Post-Injury
<p>Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is known to involve damage in the neurovascular unit. TBI may disrupt the brain’s neurovascular coupling–the relationship between cerebral blood flow and neural activity–that can lead to cognitive and functional impairments. This study attempted to non-invasively …
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