[PDF] Top 20 Early detection of consciousness in patients with acute severe traumatic brain injury

... absence of responses to language, music and motor imagery was only observed in coma ...patients. In patients with behavioural evidence of language function, responses to ... Voir le document complet

... concept of brain-heart interaction has been described in several brain ...injuries. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) may also lead to cardiac dysfunction but evidences are ... Voir le document complet

... complained of worst sleep quality, more severe sleep disturbances and poorer daytime functioning on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index when compared with healthy control athletes ...proportion ... Voir le document complet

... Treating patients with acute or chronic disorders of consciousness remains a challeng- ing ...treatment in hopeless acute comatose states was started in the 1970s ... Voir le document complet

... Compared with normal ICP, elevated ICP is known to be closely linked with higher mortality and disability ...intensity of episodes of high ICP were also associated with worse outcome ... Voir le document complet

... use of early prophylactic hypothermia in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) ( 1 ...initiation of hypothermia during the acute ... Voir le document complet

... Methods Patients and controls Nineteen patients with severe brain injury (trauma, n ¼ 5; anoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy, n ¼ 3; subarachnoidal haemor- rhage, n ¼ 10; infection, ... Voir le document complet

... recovery of certain brain processes that have been dysfunctional for many years in DOC patients is possible using low frequency ...MCS patients with high mean baseline CRS-R ... Voir le document complet

... profile of spastic muscle overactivity (SMO) is poorly documented in patients with disorders of consciousness (DOC) following severe cortical and subcortical ... Voir le document complet

... Pre-proof consciousness because they found no difference in cortico-cortical connectivity of the visual cortex on FDG-PET or in recovery rates between patients who demonstrated fixation ... Voir le document complet

... number of subcortical structures including regions known to be involved in the regulation of elec- trocortical arousal, sleep–wake rhythms, and conscious ...common” brain pathology, as ... Voir le document complet

... differences in brain structure and has been shown to operate well in cases of relatively mild-to-severe struc- tural brain injury [ 65 , 66 ...]. In many cases, ... Voir le document complet

... Smith S.M., Jenkinson M., Johansen-Berg H., Rueckert D., Nichols T.E., Mackay C.E., Watkins K.E., Ciccarelli O., Cader M.Z., Matthews P.M. Behrens T.E.J. (2006): Tract-based spatial statistics: Voxelwise analysis ... Voir le document complet

... objective of this study was to verify whether social support measured at 4 months following TBI predicted the presence of mental health disorders one to two years ...effects of pre-injury ... Voir le document complet

... Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA Abstract Objectives: To determine which features of minimally conscious state (MCS) emerge first in patients transitioning from the vegetative state ... Voir le document complet

... consecutive patients who fitted our inclusion criteria, were hospitalized sufficiently long to participate in the study, and provided consent for ...Two patients had a GCS score of 14 and 1 ... Voir le document complet

... primary acute event is the mechanical injury that can give extracranial and intracranial complications like epidural hematoma, subarachnoid hemorrhage, or ...primary injury severity, location, and ... Voir le document complet

... levels of miR-93, miR-191 and miR-499 were all elevated in serum from mild, moderate and severe TBI ...levels of all three miRNAs were related to both the severity of the injury ... Voir le document complet

... characteristics of our sample Demographic and clinical characteristics of the TBI and OSCI groups are presented in Table ...7 patients (3 females; ...6 patients (3 females; ...GCS ... Voir le document complet

... Detection of consciousness also depends on the materials that are used at the ...one of the first signs of consciousness to recover after a coma, Thonnard et ...report in ... Voir le document complet