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Head Injury in Children and Adolescents
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This is a comprehensive framework for the care needed by children and their families following a traumatic brain injury.
From the Preface:
‘Traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents is a significant epidemiological and health problem in all countries of the world. Severe brain injury forever alters the lives of affected children and their families. What has become clear is that there is also a ‘silent epidemic’ of mild head injury and that many children – for what is now recognized as the result of individual genetic differences and vulnerabilities of injury characteristics – are at risk for significant long-term cognitive and behavioural disabilities of varying severity. The future will hold promise for children who have had traumatic brain injury; neuroprotective strategies, advanced treatment in neurointensive settings and new rehabilitation approaches will all play a role in reducing disability. Preventive measures – with the regulatory and legislative strength of governments – hold the key to reduction in the incidence of traumatic brain injury.’
International Review of Child Neurology Series No. 9
Abhava V Kulkarni
Abhaya Kulkarni is Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto and Staff Neurosurgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
Peter B Dirks
Peter Dirks is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and Staff Neurosurgeon at the Hospital for Sick, Children Toronto Canada.
Peter Rumney
Peter Rumney is Assistant Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto and Staff Paediatrician at Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
AUTHORS’ APPOINTMENTS vii
PREFACE ix
Daune L. MacGregor.
PRESENTATION AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY.
1. Acute Brain Injury: 1
Charles Matouk and Abhaya Kulkarni
2. Diagnostic Imaging 20
Helen M. Branson and Manohar Shroff
3 Mild Closed Head Injury 41
Shay Menascu and Daune L. MacGregor
TREATMENT.
4. Acute and Emergency Management 50
Charles Matouk, Jamie Hutchison, Anne-Marie Guerguerian and Abhaya
Kulkarni.
5. Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation 61
Peter Rumney
OUTCOMES
6. Overview of Outcomes 73
Peter Rumney
7. Neuropsychiatric Outcomes 88
Chanth Seyone, Babita Kara and Nicola Hunt
8. Sleep and Metabolism 112
Shelly Weiss, Rajesh Ramachandran Nair and Daune L. MacGregor
9. Neuropsychological Consequences 120
Erin M. Picard and Mary L. Stewart
10. Comunication Rehabilitation 153
Kim Bradley and Maya Kashida Rattray
11. Rehabilitation Therapy186
Janet Woodhouse and Trish Geisler
12. Educational Outcomes 222
Pamela Speed
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Head Injury: Looking Towards the Future 248
Peter B. Dirks
INDEX 250
