The pressure inside patient’s skull can rise due to brain tumors and head trauma, including concussion. The elevated pressure inside the brain can destroy brain tissue or cut off the brain’s blood supply. Being able to monitor the pressure inside the brains of affected people could help physicians in establishing the best possible treatment… http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/244110.php [...]

Giacino JT, Whyte J, Bagiella E, et al. Placebo-controlled trial of amantadine for severe traumatic brain injury. N Engl J Med. 2012 Mar;366(9):819-26. (Original) PMID: 22375973   RESULTS: During the 4-week treatment period, recovery was significantly faster in the amantadine group than in the placebo group, as measured by the DRS score (difference in slope, [...]

ContextCT is currently the primary modality for investigating possible intracranial injury. The benefit of CT scanning for head injury in certain circumstances was recognised more than 30 years ago,1 but only recently have restrictive protocols based on specialist authorisation given way to a liberal approach with unrestricted access to CT scans in most high income [...]

Surgical Neurology International 2011 2(1):182-182 Background: The choice of radiological investigations in head trauma in Africa is influenced by factors such as cost. Some patients who require computed tomography (CT) scan elsewhere are either managed blindly or do not present for it at the appropriate time. This paper evaluates the CT scan findings as they [...]

(MedPage Today) — Even minor head injury in patients taking warfarin may require more than a single, initial CT scan to check for brain bleeds, Italian researchers urged. http://www.medpagetoday.com/Neurology/HeadTrauma/30742 No tags for this post.