… The prevention and management of brain ischaemia form the … of head injury. Advances
in our understanding of the pathophysiology of brain ischaemia at any stage after head injury …

… In fatal head injury, ischaemic damage is almost … head injury.31 According to one estimate,
more skilful early resuscitation could reduce the case-fatality rate of severe head injury by 10-…

… Secondary brain insults that may lead to ischaemic brain damage are extremely … head
injuries of all grades of severity, particularly ifthe head injury is associated with multiple injuries (…

… From the nature of the brain damage it seems likely that … that ischaemic brain damage is
common after head injury, that at … and morbidity after head injury than has been hitherto realised. …

… Ischaemic brain damage is common in patients who die after a non-missile head injury and,
in our experience, was as common in theearly 1980s as in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It …

… risk factors that predisposed to brain ischaemia in each patient, we devised an Ischaemia
Score (IS) to have a measurable scale to grade patients at risk of having ischaemic insults. …

… ischaemic brain damage. We have reported previously the associationbetween ischaemic
brain … circulation in a series of 33 fatallyhead-injured patients (Macpherson and Graham, 1973)…

… on the brain is ultimately to produce a reduced perfusion of blood and the brain will then …
be one of themechanisms contributing to brain damage after head injuries (and other lesions …

… Ischaemic brain damage is by far the most common secondary insult8 and is still found in …
frequency of ischaemic damage is contributed to by impairment, as a consequence of injury, of …

… What interventions, then, might ameliorate ischaemic brain damage by modifying events …
in ischaemic brain damage include cardiorespiratory arrest, stroke, and severe head injury as …