Search Tag: brain injury
Early Tracheostomy vs Late Tracheostomy in Traumatic Brain Injury, Stroke
2023 22 Feb
A recent review aimed to determine whether early tracheostomy benefits patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke and whether these benefits persist across different underlying conditions. The included studies in the review were those written in English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese and with a formulated question that compared... Read more
RSNA 2019: MRI Innovation in Concussion Analysis
2019 03 Dec
New research from New York University (NYU) sheds light on how damage from mild traumatic brain injury, or concussion, affects your cognitive function. Transmission of information between the brain's left and right hemispheres is via the corpus callosum, a bundle of nerve fibres that carries signals between the two sides. Concussions are harmful... Read more
Withdrawing Life Support for Patients with Brain Injury
2019 03 Jul
The decision to withdraw life support from patients with severe brain injuries is one that cannot be taken lightly. In a study conducted in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal), critical care physicians were asked about the decision-making process when it comes to withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. The qualitative interview study was... Read more
Xenon limits brain damage following cardiac arrest
2018 16 Oct
Xenon and brain injury. Xenon, a chemically inert but biologically active monatomic gas, has been applied in patients for anaesthesia/sedation, and most recently in the critical care of patients with acute ongoing neurological damage. Following preclinical evidence that xenon has ameliorative activity in several pathobiologic... Read more
ALERT-TBI study supports new blood test for detecting brain injury
2018 02 Aug
Detection of intracranial injuries relies on head CT, which is overused and resource intensive. Blood-based brain biomarkers hold the potential to predict absence of intracranial injury and thus reduce unnecessary head CT scanning. New research results show that a serum biomarker test, which detects two brain proteins that are present in the blood... Read more
Ultrasound to detect secondary brain injury
2018 08 May
When a patient suffers from traumatic brain injury (TBI), there aren’t many treatment options available to physicians, and a team of engineers and emergency medicine physicians decided they could make a strong contribution if they joined forces. Funded by the Massey Grand Challenge, the team built an ultrasound system to detect secondary brain injury,... Read more
Reducing Brain Injury After Cardiac Arrest: American Academy of Neurology Practice Guideline
2017 28 May
Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) (32-34°C for 24 hours) should be mandatory practice for patients who are comatose after being resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, if the initial cardiac rhythm is either pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF), according to the American Academy of Neurology (AAN)’s newly published... Read more
RSNA16: Depression in Soldiers linked to Brain Injury
2016 05 Dec
According to new findings presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), the use of multiple brain imaging techniques helped find a disruption of the circuitry in the brain's cognitive-emotional pathways. This could provide a foundation for depression symptoms in solders who have suffered mild traumatic brain injury... Read more
MRI-Type Imaging Predicts Impact From Combat Brain Injury
2016 04 Apr
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), a type of MRI, may be able to predict functional post-deployment outcomes for veterans who sustained mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), or concussion, during combat, according to a new study published in the journal Radiology . Recently, there has been a dramatic rise in the incidence of combat-related... Read more