Severe Head Injuries

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-X

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2. Clinical Head Injury Trials

   • R. Braakman

   Pages 1-5

3. Pathophysiology of Brain Injury: An Overview

   • T. J. Kuhn

   Pages 6-18

4. The Morphology of Traumatic Head Injury

   • H. D. Mennel

   Pages 19-28

5. Preclinical Emergency Management of Severe Brain Injuries and Polytraumata

   • P. Sefrin, C. Apfel

   Pages 29-33

6. Preclinical Treatment of Patients With Severe Brain Injuries

   • J. Piek

   Pages 34-43

7. The Traumatic Carotid Cavernous Fistula: Clinical Features, Diagnosis, and Therapy

   • S. Bien, J. P. Wakat

   Pages 44-49

8. Guidelines for the Management of Severe Head Injury: An Overview

   • R. M. Chesnut

   Pages 50-67

9. Cranial Fractures and Traumatic Hematomas

   • R. Firsching

   Pages 68-75

10. Panfacial Fractures

    • W. Hochban

    Pages 76-81

11. Cerebral Blood Flow, Hyperventilation, and Metabolism in Severe Head Injury

    • D. W. Marion

    Pages 82-88

12. Management of Intracranial Hypertension in Pediatric Head Injury

    • M. J. Fritsch, K. H. Manwaring, D. H. Beyda

    Pages 89-98

13. Quality and Therapeutic Advances in Multimodality Neuromonitoring Following Head Injury

    • J. Meixensberger, A. Jäger, J. Dings, S. Baunach, K. Roosen

    Pages 99-108

14. Monitoring of Cerebral Oxygenation in Traumatic Brain Injured Patients

    • A. S. Sarrafzadeh, A. W. Unterberg, K. L. Kiening, T. F. Bardt, G.-H. Schneider, W. R. Lanksch

    Pages 109-120

15. Traumatic Lesions of Cranial Nerves in Head-Injured Patients

    • M. Samii, C. Matthies

    Pages 121-141

16. Neurological, Neurophysiological Syndromes and Cognitive Disorders in Brain-Injured Patients: Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Therapeutic Advances

    • W. Gobiet

    Pages 142-150

17. Back Matter

    Pages 151-154

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Severe head injuries are a frequent occurrence in the life of every emergency care specialist, traumatologist, neurosurgeon, and rehabilitation specialist. For example, between 30.000 to 40.000 severe head injuries occur in Germany each year. Over 75.000 Americans die each year after having suffered a severe head injury. Nevertheless, treatment is not always optimal. Survival and longterm outcome depends not only on the type of injury but also on timely and appropriate diagnosis and treatment. Thus, all physicians involved must be aware of the current procedures in the management of severe head injuries. This reference book, based on the experience of international experts, provides an up to date and practical guideline.

• brain
• brain injury
• emergency
• head
• head injury
• intensive care
• intensive care management and operative therapy
• konventional and interventional radiology
• neuropathology
• pathophysiology
• polytrauma
• prehospital treatment
• rehabilitation
• severe brain inury
• trauma

• Zentrum für Operative Medizin I, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany

  Bernhard L. Bauer, Thomas J. Kuhn

• Klinik für Neurochirurgie, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany

  Thomas J. Kuhn

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