Geriatric traumatic brain injury: epidemiology, outcomes, knowledge gaps, and future directions

RC Gardner, K Dams-O'Connor… - Journal of …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
This review of the literature on traumatic brain injury (TBI) in older adults focuses on incident
TBI sustained in older adulthood (“geriatric TBI”) rather than on the separate, but related …

[HTML][HTML] Overuse of computed tomography for mild head injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis

M Saran, M Arab-Zozani, M Behzadifar, M Gholami… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Background Computed tomography (CT) scan is a common imaging technique used to
evaluate the severity of a head injury. The overuse of diagnostic interventions in the health …

Age-related differences in diagnostic accuracy of plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein and tau for identifying acute intracranial trauma on computed tomography: a …

RC Gardner, R Rubenstein, KKW Wang… - Journal of …, 2018 - liebertpub.com
Plasma tau and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) are promising biomarkers for identifying
traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients with intracranial trauma on computed tomography (CT) …

Pure endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal approach for nonfunctioning pituitary adenomas in the elderly: surgical outcomes and complications in 158 patients

R Zhan, Z Ma, D Wang, X Li - World neurosurgery, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective To evaluate the safety and efficacy of the endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal
approach (EETA) for nonfunctioning pituitary adenoma (NFPA) in the elderly population …

Geriatric traumatic brain injury—what we know and what we don't

DM Stein, RA Kozar, DH Livingston… - Journal of Trauma …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
According to the Census Bureau, it is expected that the elderly population in the United
States will more than double to 80 million by 2050. 1 Currently, older adults have fewer …

Sleep stage distribution in persons with mild traumatic brain injury: a polysomnographic study according to American Academy of Sleep Medicine standards

T Mollayeva, A Colantonio, JD Cassidy, L Vernich… - Sleep medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Objective and background Sleep stage disruption in persons with mild traumatic brain injury
(mTBI) has received little research attention. We examined deviations in sleep stage …

Growing number of emergency cranial CTs in patients with head injury not justified by their clinical need

L Lambert, O Foltan, J Briza, A Lambertova… - Wiener klinische …, 2017 - Springer
Background Computed tomography (CT) is widely available in most hospitals, usually 24 ha
day, which results in an expansion of its indications, sometimes beyond medically justifiable …

Artificial neural networks: Predicting head CT findings in elderly patients presenting with minor head injury after a fall

MW Dusenberry, CK Brown, KL Brewer - The American journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Objectives: To construct an artificial neural network (ANN) model that can predict the
presence of acute CT findings with both high sensitivity and high specificity when applied to …

Geriatric mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)

KL McCulloch, MBA Osborne, CR Ramsey - Current Geriatrics Reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Studies that focus on geriatric mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)
are limited, although these injuries occur commonly as a result of falls in the older adult …

[HTML][HTML] Management and outcome of traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage in 79 infants and children from a single level 1 trauma center

H Binder, M Majdan, J Leitgeb, S Payr, R Breuer… - Children, 2021 - mdpi.com
Objective: Traumatic brain injury is a leading form of pediatric trauma and a frequent cause
of mortality and acquired neurological impairment in children. The aim of this study was to …