Description
Neurotrauma features the papers presented at the Second Houston Conference on Neurotrauma in Texas held in May 1985. These papers cover discussions on patients who have both brain and spinal cord injuries and acute care treatment and investigations of brain injury, as well as rehabilitation strategies and approaches.
This second edition is organized into four parts. The first part deals with the treatment of less-than-severe head injury, barbiturate-induced coma, closed head injuries, and severely brain-injured patients. The second part focuses on the evaluation of physiological and anatomical recovery of brain injury patients, while the third part discusses the management of patients with combined head and spinal cord injury. The final part focuses on rehabilitation issues that include nonpharmacological management, the impact of traumatic brain injury on sexuality, and ethical aspects of lifesaving therapeutic strategies.
This book may be of interest to persons dealing with studies on the treatment of brain and spinal cord injuries.
Chapter
Part I: Acute Treatment of Brain Injury
Chapter 1. Less-Than-Severe Head Injury:Pathology and Outcome
Chapter 2. Protective Effect of Facial Fractures on Closed Head Injuries
Chapter 3. Barbiturate Coma: The Richmond Experience
BASIC PRINCIPLES IN THE STUDY OF BARBITURATE COMA
Chapter 4. Cerebral Protection with Barbiturate-Induced Coma inthe Treatment of Severely Brain-Injured Patients
SHOULD BARBITURATES BE UTILIZED INHEAD-INJURED PATIENTS?
THE HIGH DOSE BARBITURATE TRIAL SPONSORED BY THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
PROTOCOL AND MONITORING FOR BARBITURATE COMA
COMPLICATIONS AND SIDE EFFECTS OF BARBITURATE COMA
Part II: Assessing Anatomical and Physiological Recovery
Chapter 5. Regeneration of the Mammalian Brain following Lesions
EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF REGENERATION
MECHANISM AND EXTENT OF REGENERATION
Chapter 6. The Use of Topical Anesthesia in the Rehabilitation of Patients with Spasticity
NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL BACKGROUND
HYPOTHESIS AND EVALUATION
CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF THE EFFECT OF TOPICAL ANESTHETIC APPLICATION ON THE REHABILITATION OF MOVEMENTS IN PATIENTS WITH SPASTICITY
Chapter 7. Neurophysiological Assessment of Motor Disorders in Patients with Brain Injury
EVALUATION OF UPPER MOTOR NEURON FUNCTION
POLYELECTROMYOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF UPPER MOTOR NEURON FUNCTIONS
Chapter 8. Comparison of Results with CT Scanning and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Brain-Injured Patients Undergoing Rehabilitation
Part III: Combined Head and Spinal Cord Injury
Chapter 9. Incidence of Combined Head and Spinal Cord Injury and Potential for Errors in Diagnosis
INCIDENCE OF COMBINED HEAD AND SPINAL CORD INJURY
Chapter 10. Occult Head Injury in Spinal Cord Injury: Relationship to Premorbid History and Learning Self-Care
Chapter 11. Evaluation of Closed Head Injury and Cognitive Deficits in Patients with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
RETROSPECTIVE STUDY OF REPORTED LOC AND POSTTRAUMATIC AMNESIA IN SCI PATIENTS
EVALUATION OF COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION IN SCI PATIENTS
Part IV: Post-Acute and Rehabilitation Issues
Chapter 12. Rehabilitation of Severe Brain Injury: When You Stick to the Facts, You Cut the Losses
BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
BASIC FACTS ABOUT GENERALIZATION OF TRAINING
BASIC FACTS ABOUT THE DELIVERY OF CLINICAL SERVICES
Chapter 13. Nonpharmacological Management in Brain Injury Rehabilitation
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS
Chapter 14. Thematic Staff Pressures Secondary to Brain Injury Exposure: The Question of Stress and Burnout
NATURE AND EFFECTS OF STRESS
Chapter 15. Sexuality following Traumatic Brain Injury
NEUROLOGICAL BASIS OF SEXUAL FUNCTIONING
DIRECT SEXUAL DISORDERS FOLLOWING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
INDIRECT SEXUAL DISORDERS FOLLOWING TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
SEXUAL CONSEQUENCES FOR THE PARTNER
Chapter 16. Aggressive Interventions and Reluctant Withdrawals: Ethical Boundaries of Lifesaving Therapies
CONSEQUENCES OF UNCERTAINTY
Neurotrauma
：Treatment, Rehabilitation, and Related Issues
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