Traumatic brain injury : a multidisciplinary approach / edited by Peter C. Whitfield, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust and Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth, UK, Elfyn Thomas, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK, Jess Welbourne, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, UK, Fiona Summers, NHS Grampian and Honorary Lecturer, University of Aberdeen, UK, Maggie Whyte, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, NHS Grampian, UK, Peter J. Hutchinson, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Cambridge, UK. 6
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Language: Unknown language code Summary language: Unknown language code Original language: Unknown language code Series: ; Cambridge, United Kingdom ;;New York : Cambridge University Press, 202046Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781108355247ISSN: 2Other title: 6 []Uniform titles: | | Subject(s): -- 2 -- 0 -- -- | -- 2 -- 0 -- 6 -- | 2 0 -- | -- -- 20 -- | | -- -- Wounds and injuries. Brain -- -- 20 -- | -- -- -- 20 -- --Genre/Form: -- 2 -- Additional physical formats: Traumatic brain injuryDDC classification: | 617.4/81 LOC classification: | RD594 | 2Other classification:| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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First edition published 2009. 56
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Provided by publisher. Head injury is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in all age groups. Injury to the head can result in traumatic brain injury (TBI) of varying severity. TBI is common with a self-reported lifetime prevalence of up to 40% in adults.1 Currently, there is no effective treatment to reverse the effects of the primary brain injury sustained, and treatment is aimed at minimizing the secondary brain injury that can occur due to the effects of isc-haemia, hypoxia and raised intracranial pressure. This can occur immediately, within the following hours or days or after a further head injury. An understanding of the epidemiology of head injury is essential for devising preventive measures, to plan population-based primary prevention strategies and to provide effective and timely treatment including provision of rehabilitation facilities to those who have suffered a head injury. This information can then be used to improve TBI outcomes--
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