Trauma
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Experimental Therapy Restores Cognitive Function in Chronic TBI
This is the first time a DBS device has been implanted in the central thalamus in humans.
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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for traumatic brain injury: Promising or wishful thinking?
With respect to chronic TBI, it is difficult to imagine how HBOT could reverse brain injury that has been present for months or years.
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What can you do during a mass shooting? This MD found out
We were seeing high-velocity gunshot wounds that I’ve seen for 20 years in the Army. I know how to fix them. But there wasn’t a single thing I...
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TBI tied to increased mental health diagnoses, time to suicide
“Folks in mental health probably have a lot of patients who have brain injury in their practice, and they don’t know it and that’s an important...
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New data on traumatic brain injury show it’s chronic, evolving
“Our results dispute the notion that TBI is a discrete, isolated medical event with a finite, static functional outcome following a relatively...
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Guide explains nonsurgical management of major hemorrhage
Bleeding affects everybody in medicine, from family doctors in smaller institutions who work in emergency departments to obstetricians and...
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Does new heart transplant method challenge definition of death?
Heart donation after circulatory rather than brain death increases donor hearts available to save lives, but the processes involved raise ethical...
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Older men more at risk as dangerous falls rise for all seniors
“We always hear about lower bone density rates among females, so we didn’t expect to see males with more skull fractures.”
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High school athletes sustaining worse injuries
Although overall injury rates have declined, the number of head and neck injuries increased, as did injuries requiring surgery and those leading...
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Clinician violence: Virtual reality to the rescue?
Workplace violence is affecting so many providers in hospital emergency departments but also throughout other parts of the hospital.