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Current Trends in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

In this review, we provide an overview of the current research and treatment of all types of traumatic brain injury (TBI) before illustrating the need for improved care specific to mild TBI patients. Contemporary issues pertaining to acute care of mild TBI including prognostication, neurosurgical in...

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Autores principales: Krueger, Evan M, DiGiorgio, Anthony M, Jagid, Jonathan, Cordeiro, Joacir G, Farhat, Hamad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8559421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34737902
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18434
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author Krueger, Evan M
DiGiorgio, Anthony M
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Farhat, Hamad
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description In this review, we provide an overview of the current research and treatment of all types of traumatic brain injury (TBI) before illustrating the need for improved care specific to mild TBI patients. Contemporary issues pertaining to acute care of mild TBI including prognostication, neurosurgical intervention, repeat radiographic imaging, reversal of antiplatelet and anticoagulation medications, and cost savings initiatives are reviewed. Lastly, the effect of COVID-19 on TBI is addressed.
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spelling pubmed-85594212021-11-03 Current Trends in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Krueger, Evan M DiGiorgio, Anthony M Jagid, Jonathan Cordeiro, Joacir G Farhat, Hamad Cureus Neurosurgery In this review, we provide an overview of the current research and treatment of all types of traumatic brain injury (TBI) before illustrating the need for improved care specific to mild TBI patients. Contemporary issues pertaining to acute care of mild TBI including prognostication, neurosurgical intervention, repeat radiographic imaging, reversal of antiplatelet and anticoagulation medications, and cost savings initiatives are reviewed. Lastly, the effect of COVID-19 on TBI is addressed. Cureus 2021-10-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8559421/ /pubmed/34737902 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18434 Text en Copyright © 2021, Krueger et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8559421/
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