MEASURING THE BURDEN OF SECONDARY INSULTS IN HEAD INJURED PATIENTS
DURING INTENSIVE CARE Patricia A. Jones, Peter JD Andrews, ^Susan Midgley, Shirley I …

Background: In patients with severe head injury, control of physiological variables is
important to avoid intracranial hypertension and secondary injury to the brain. The aims of …

Brain ischaemia is a frequent and important sequel to brain injury. Areas of ischaemic brain
damage are an almost invariable finding at postmortem in patients who have sustained …

As triage and resuscitation protocols evolve, it is critical to determine the major extracranial
variables influencing outcome in the setting of severe head injury. We prospectively studied …

Non‐neurological organ dysfunction is common after traumatic brain injury and is an
independent contributor to morbidity and mortality. It represents a risk factor that is …

✓ A prospective and consecutive series of 225 patients with severe head injury who were
managed in a uniform way was analyzed to relate outcome to several clinical variables …

Data were obtained prospectively for 7,912 head-injured patients admitted from 1980 to
1981 to 41 hospitals in 3 US metropolitan areas. Highly significant independent predictors of …

✓ In order to define the role of intracranial and extracranial complications in determining
outcome from severe head injury, 734 patients from the Traumatic Coma Data Bank were …

Secondary insults in severe head injury—Do multiply injured... : Critical Care Medicine
Secondary insults in severe head injury—Do multiply injured patients do worse? : Critical Care …

This review examines the evidence base for the early management of head‐injured patients.
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is common, carries a high morbidity and mortality, and has no …