...Binod Balakrishnan; Heather VanDongen-Trimmer; Irene Kim; Sheila J. Hanson; Liyun Zhang; Pippa M. Simpson; Raquel Farias-Moeller Background: The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), used to classify the severity of traumatic brain injury (TBI), is associated with mortality and functional outcomes. However...

... admitted to the emergency service due to head trauma were included in our study. Patients were evaluated in terms of age, gender, Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), initial and follow-up Rotterdam scale scores, length of stay, presence of other traumas, seizures, antiepileptic drug use, need for surgical necessity...

..., clinical features, CT findings and the Glasgow Coma Scale score on arrival, and after 12 and 24 h. Also analyzed was whether during primary care either surgical intervention or initial conservative management was recommended. Results: In the 20 months analyzed, 33 EDH patients were admitted to the PICU...

.... The patient recovered fully and was normal at discharge and the 6-month follow-up. Barbiturate coma Craniectomy Glasgow Coma Scale Head injury Traumatic brain injury Intracranial hypertension Aggressive management of children with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) presenting with poor...

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... (24 died, 6 were severely disabled at 6 months after injury and 1 was in a persistent vegetative state) while 120 (79.5%) had a good outcome (89 recovered well and 31 were moderately disabled). Factors associated with a poor outcome were Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score 24 h following injury, presence...

... traumatic brain injury. Hierarchical multiple regression indicated that the modified Glasgow Coma Scale score, the duration of impaired consciousness and the number of intracranial lesions visualized on CT/MRI accounted for a significant amount of the variance in the Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS), cognitive...

..., immediately evaluating severity of head injury (Glasgow Coma Scale, GCS); cerebral axial tomography; prothrombin time; activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT); fibrinogen level; concentration of fibrin-fibrinogen degradation products (FDP), and platelet count. Two months after injury, we applied...