Traumatic brain injury Preface Introduction Early Management of Head Injury Clinical history Immediate assessment and treatment Patient investigation Communication Further and more detailed physical examination (secondary survey) Criteria guiding referral to neurosurgical hospital Definition And Detection Of Secondary Brain Injury Primary and secondary brain injury Extra cranial causes Intra cranial physiologicial causes Overview of Imaging after TBI Intra cerebral lesions and their effects Blast injury Cellular and molecular events Assessment Of Severe Brain Injury Neurological monitoring ICP monitoring ICP waveform disturbances Indications for monitoring ICP patients with head injury Methods to measure ICP Threshold for ICP treatment Threshold for CPP treatment Approach to the interpretation of ICP data The place of advanced monitoring techniques in head injury Treatment Of Severe Head Injury Therapeutic intervention level Specific management GIC with Particular Reference to TBI Patients Central nervous system Respiratory system GI system, nutrition and stress ulceration Metabolic function Haematology,coagulation,venous thromboembolic disease Infections – prevention and management Management of other injuries Complications and Outcomes Late complications of traumatic brain injury Outcome from severe head injury Prediction of outcome Measurement of outcome Audit Conclusion Key points in TBI Traumatic brain injury Traumatic brain injury Table of contents: Preface Traumatic brain injury Preface Introduction Early Management of Head Injury Clinical history Immediate assessment and treatment Patient investigation Communication Further and more detailed physical examination (secondary survey) Criteria guiding referral to neurosurgical hospital Definition And Detection Of Secondary Brain Injury Primary and secondary brain injury Extra cranial causes Intra cranial physiologicial causes Overview of Imaging after TBI Intra cerebral lesions and their effects Blast injury Cellular and molecular events Assessment Of Severe Brain Injury Neurological monitoring ICP monitoring ICP waveform disturbances Indications for monitoring ICP patients with head injury Methods to measure ICP Threshold for ICP treatment Threshold for CPP treatment Approach to the interpretation of ICP data The place of advanced monitoring techniques in head injury Treatment Of Severe Head Injury Therapeutic intervention level Specific management GIC with Particular Reference to TBI Patients Central nervous system Respiratory system GI system, nutrition and stress ulceration Metabolic function Haematology,coagulation,venous thromboembolic disease Infections – prevention and management Management of other injuries Complications and Outcomes Late complications of traumatic brain injury Outcome from severe head injury Prediction of outcome Measurement of outcome Audit Conclusion Key points in TBI Traumatic brain injury