Intravenous saline administration in patients with severe acquired brain injury and orthostatic intolerance for tilt-table mobilization.

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Duration of post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) is an important index of severity of head injury. Retrospective assessment of PTA duration is arguably unreliable. Existing objective measures of PTA duration are designed for use over a 24-hour timeframe and, therefore, are not useful for assessing PTA following...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Ponsford J,Willmott C,Rothwell A,Kelly AM,Nelms R,Ng KT

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Volunteering has been found to improve life satisfaction and participation in the general population, but its impact has not been thoroughly studied among those with traumatic brain injury (TBI). It is important to investigate whether volunteering is helpful in addressing participation and life satisfactio...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Philippus A,Ketchum JM,Payne L,Hawley L,Harrison-Felix C

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuropsychological functioning of a group of 65 adults with severe traumatic brain injury was assessed at 6 months and 1 year post-injury. The cognitive domains assessed were pre-morbid intellectual level, current level of general intellectual functioning, simple and complex attention, verbal memory, executive fun...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Kersel DA,Marsh NV,Havill JH,Sleigh JW

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impairments in judging and responding to consequences that follow behaviour are often attributed to changes in various cognitive processes. An alternative conceptualization is that impairments may produce a reduction in sensitivity to reinforcement contingencies. The present investigation employed a methodology common...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Schlund MW,Pace G

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This case study describes the psychological treatment of a man with co-existing PTSD, head injury and mild dysexecutive impairment. It describes the detrimental consequences when the re-experiencing of a traumatic event appears to have become a perseverated response. In this case, the perseveration meant that the most...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： King NS

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify the best performing prognostic model using admission characteristics to predict mortality at 30 days and functioning outcome at 6-months post-admission in patients with moderate or severe brain injury. METHODS:Using a retrospective database (n = 1466 patients) of a tertiary trauma care centre, th...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Kamal VK,Agrawal D,Pandey RM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The primary objective of this study was to determine the incidence of clinically significant traumatic intracranial hemorrhage (T-ICH) following minor head trauma in older adults. Secondary objective was to investigate the impact of anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapies on T-ICH incidence. METHODS:This r...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： O'Brien T,Mitra B,Le Sage N,Tardif PA,Emond M,D'Astous M,Mercier E

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to examine the reliability, validity and clinical usefulness of the Barrow Neurological Institute Fatigue Scale (BNI-FS) in patients with mild traumatic brain injuries (MTBI). METHODS AND PROCEDURE:Participants were 125 patients enrolled from the Emergency Department (ED) of Ta...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Wäljas M,Iverson GL,Hartikainen KM,Liimatainen S,Dastidar P,Soimakallio S,Jehkonen M,Ohman J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the prognostic ability of protein S100B, neuron-specific enolase (NSE) and glial fibrillary acid protein (GFAP) for prediction of 1-year mortality in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in relation to clinical and radiological characteristics of TBI. METHODS:Brain injury was quantified in 8...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Gradisek P,Osredkar J,Korsic M,Kremzar B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amantadine is currently recommended for use in patients of post-traumatic brain injury with unresponsive wakefulness syndrome (UWS). However, the application of amantadine in UWS after cerebral hemorrhage has only been rarely reported. This allows for a further exploration of the role of amantadine in the tr...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Gao Y,Ma L,Liang F,Zhang Y,Yang L,Liu X,Yang J

更新日期：2020-07-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As an expected consequence of the civil war in Syria, emergent neurosurgical care for battlefield trauma has been provided for severely head-injured Syrians transferred to Northern Israel. METHODS:Sixty-six patients suffering from brain injury were brought to the border and then referred to the institution ...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Barhoum M,Tobias S,Elron M,Sharon A,Heija T,Soustiel JF

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the impact of brain-injured patients' cognitive abilities on their working alliance (WA) with their therapist in post-acute rehabilitation. DESIGN:Cognitive tests were administered to brain-injured individuals at the beginning of post-acute, holistic brain-injury rehabilitation. Clients as well as...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Schönberger M,Humle F,Teasdale TW

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the course and impact of family optimism in the post-acute stage of acquired brain injury. METHODS:At Time 1, 30 family relatives of in-patients in rehabilitation units and 30 relatives of patients recently discharged from such units completed questionnaires relating to their emotional health,...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Riley GA,Hough A,Meader LM,Brennan AJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the discriminative validity of the McCarron-Dial System (MDS) in neuropsychological assessment. Multiple discriminant analysis results indicate that 92.6% of the brain-damaged and non-brain-damaged groups, and 69.6% of the right, left and diffused brain-damaged subgroups we...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Dial JG,Chan F,Norton C

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the relationship between neuropsychological sequelae and atrophy parameters from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) following paediatric moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), 19 head injured children and adolescents were studied at least 6 years after injury. Three-dimensional MRI scans were obtain...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Verger K,Junqué C,Levin HS,Jurado MA,Pérez-Gómez M,Bartrés-Faz D,Barrios M,Alvarez A,Bartumeus F,Mercader JM

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:To establish a process whereby assessment of functional communication reflects the authentic communication of the target population. The major functional communication assessments available from the USA may not be as relevant to those who reside elsewhere, nor assessments developed primarily for perso...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Larkins BM,Worrall LE,Hickson LM

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Constructional apraxia was evaluated in patients with aphasia using a cube-copying task. It was assessed whether quantitative assessment of cube copying could be used to estimate the performance intelligence quotient (IQ) according to neuropsychological tests. Abnormality in the cube-copying test was observed in 42 of...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Maeshima S,Ueyoshi A,Matsumoto T,Boh-Oka S,Yoshida M,Itakura T

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:Balance disturbances occur in ∼30% of concussion injuries, with vestibular dysfunction reported as the main contributor. However, few have studied oculomotor control post-concussion to assess vestibular dysfunction. RESEARCH DESIGN:The current research measured the differences in oculomotor control b...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Murray NG,Ambati VN,Contreras MM,Salvatore AP,Reed-Jones RJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to explore and extend previous findings that training with variant items improves generalization performance on novel semantic sentences in an individual with amnesia. RESEARCH DESIGN:A case study of an individual with severe amnesia, Patient T.E., who participated in an...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Stark S,Gordon B,Stark C

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To assess the effectiveness of interventions for mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) in adults as found in the literature. RESEARCH DESIGN:Systematic review of the literature. METHODS:Six electronic databases and 18 journals within the brain injury field were manually searched between the years 1980-2003. R...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Comper P,Bisschop SM,Carnide N,Tricco A

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:To study the variables that relate to outcome after mild traumatic brain injury (TBI). METHODS AND PROCEDURES:Sixty-seven adults with disappointing recoveries after mild TBI most occurring in a compensation or litigation context were studied with regard to pre-injury, neuro-trauma, physical, emotion...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Mooney G,Speed J,Sheppard S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Most of the retrospective studies have demonstrated that traumatic brain injury mediated hypopituitarism could be more frequent than previously known. Therefore, this study has prospectively investigated pituitary function and their correlation with severity, pressure effect and Glasgow Outcome Scale in the ...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Prasanna KL,Mittal RS,Gandhi A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: This study evaluates the contribution of measures for social cognition (SC), executive functioning (EF) and dysexecutive behavior to the statistical prediction of social and vocational participation in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI), taking into account age and injury severity.Method: A total of...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Westerhof-Evers HJ,Fasotti L,van der Naalt J,Spikman JM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of an errorless training approach, Spaced Retrieval (SR) training delivered over the telephone, on the reported everyday memory problems of adults with chronic traumatic brain injury (TBI). RESEARCH DESIGN:The study was a randomized controlled cli...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Bourgeois MS,Lenius K,Turkstra L,Camp C

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study had two main objectives: Firstly, to document the economic differences between 'ordinary' and 'aggressive' neurosurgical intensive care and secondly, to evaluate the medical benefits in relation to costs for different subgroups of head-injured patients. The study compares patients injured in traffic ...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Sundbärg G,Norlund A,Nordström CH,Messeter K

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine what is the use of time and physical activity in people undertaking inpatient rehabilitation in a specialised brain injury unit. To determine participants' level of independence related to the use of time and physical activity. METHODS:Design: Cross-sectional observation study. PARTICIPANTS:Fo...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Hassett L,Wong S,Sheaves E,Daher M,Grady A,Egan C,Seeto C,Hosking T,Moseley A

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:This study was designed to determine whether electro-acupuncture (EA) could alleviate cerebral oedema after cerebral ischemia. RESEARCH DESIGN:EA has been widely used for cerebrovascular disease in East Asian countries. However, whether EA might reduce cerebral oedema after stroke remains unclear. In...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Zhang F,Wu Y,Jia J

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to identify the most appropriate rehabilitation outcome measure for use in a young adult population with acquired brain injury. METHODS:A 2-year prospective study of patients admitted to a UK military neuro-rehabilitation unit with acquired brain injury to compare the appropriatenes...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： McGilloway E,Mitchell J,Dharm-Datta S,Roberts A,Tilley H,Etherington J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to explore the attentional performance of patients with closed head injury (CHI) and to examine the discriminative validity of the Test of Everyday Attention (TEA) in this clinical population. A sample of 21 patients with CHI was recruited for this study. Another sample of matched controls was also re...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Chan RC

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Narcolepsy arising from trauma can present particular problems of differential diagnosis. In this case study presentation the patient suffered a head trauma, without unconsciousness, and began to experience unusual episodic behaviours. Symptom presentation differed from the typical clinical manifestations of idiopathi...

journal_title：Brain injury

authors： Bruck D,Broughton RJ

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00