Neurologic • Depressed consciousness/inability to protect airway • Need for sedatives to control intracranial pressure • Status epilepticus Pulmonary • Acute respiratory distress syndrome   – Sepsis   – Aspiration   – Transfusion-related…

Fig. 22.1 Whether it is hiking the cliffs along the Rio Grande River in Big Bend for the view of Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert or starting prophylactic anticoagulation after TBI, the principal…

Fig. 17.1 a–c Preoperative CT scans of an unstable thoracic chance fracture, which is a flexion injury of the thoracic spine, demonstrated by the anterior vertebral body compression fracture with a…

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017James M. Ecklund and Leon E. Moores (eds.)Neurotrauma Management for the Severely Injured Polytrauma Patient10.1007/978-3-319-40208-6_28 28. Functional Restoration for Neurological Trauma: Current Therapies and Future Directions James Leiphart1   (1) Dept. of…

Injury severity Glasgow coma scale Post-traumatic amnesia Structural imaging Loss of consciousness (LOC) Alteration of consciousness/mental state Mild 13–15 <24 h Normal 0–30 min A moment up to 24 h Moderate 9–12 1–7 days…

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017James M. Ecklund and Leon E. Moores (eds.)Neurotrauma Management for the Severely Injured Polytrauma Patient10.1007/978-3-319-40208-6_25 25. Therapeutic Hypothermia for Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury Shamir Haji1   and Geoffrey S. F. Ling1, 2  …

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017James M. Ecklund and Leon E. Moores (eds.)Neurotrauma Management for the Severely Injured Polytrauma Patient10.1007/978-3-319-40208-6_24 24. Nutrition, Antibiotics, and Post-traumatic Seizure Prophylaxis Erik J. Teicher1   and Christopher P. Michetti1   (1) Trauma Services, Inova Fairfax…

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017James M. Ecklund and Leon E. Moores (eds.)Neurotrauma Management for the Severely Injured Polytrauma Patient10.1007/978-3-319-40208-6_21 21. Coagulopathy in Traumatic Brain Injury John Dunford1   (1) Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda,…

Fig. 3.1 SALT mass casualty triage. LSI Life saving intervention Fig. 3.2 Three tiered triage system As mentioned above, the triage process should be very quick; approximately 1 min per patient. Triage…

© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017James M. Ecklund and Leon E. Moores (eds.)Neurotrauma Management for the Severely Injured Polytrauma Patient10.1007/978-3-319-40208-6_18 18. Neuro Anesthetic Considerations John Dunford1   (1) Neuro Anesthesiologist, Director Intraoperative Neurophysiology, Walter Reed National Military…