Traumatic Brain Injury

Pieter E. Vos, Department of Neurology, Radbound University, Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The NetherlandsRamon Diaz-Arrastia, Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

• List of contributors viiPreface xAcknowledgments xiiPart I: Introduction and imaging1 The clinical problem of traumatic head injury 3Ramon Diaz-Arrastia and Pieter E. Vos2 Neuroimaging in traumatic brain injury 13Pieter E. Vos Carlos Marquez de la Plata and Ramon Diaz-ArrastiaPart II: Prehospital and ED care3 Out-of-hospital management in traumatic brain injury 45Peter R.G. Brink4 Emergency department evaluation of mild traumatic brain injury 55Noel S. Zuckerbraun C. Christopher King and Rachel P. Berger5 In-hospital observation for mild traumatic brain injury 71Pieter E. Vos and Dafin F. MuresanuPart III: In hospital6 ICU care: surgical and medical management—indications for immediate surgery 89Peter S. Amenta and Jack Jallo7 ICU care: surgical and medical management—neurological monitoring and treatment 115Luzius A. Steiner8 ICU care: surgical and medical management—systemic treatment 134Lori ShutterPart IV: Rehabilitation9 Rehabilitation of cognitive deficits after traumatic brain injury 165Philippe Azouvi and Claire Vallat-AzouviPart V: Postacute care and community in reintegration10 Epidemiology of traumatic brain injury 183Ramon Diaz-Arrastia and Kimbra Kenney11 Neuropsychiatric and behavioral sequelae 192Kathleen F. Pagulayan and Jesse R. Fann12 Follow-up and community integration of mild traumatic brain injury 211Joukje van der Naalt and Joke M. SpikmanIndex 226

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