42 How Well Can Patients Be Expected to Recover After Spinal Cord Injury? Charles H. Tator BRIEF ANSWER Most patients achieve some degree of neurologic recovery after an acute spinal…
41 What Is the Outcome of Patients with Mild, Moderate, or Severe Traumatic Brain Injury? Peter B. Letarte BRIEF ANSWER Even under the best of circumstances, severe traumatic brain injury…
16 How Soon Should Patients Receive Nutrition? How Much, Which Formulation, and by Which Route? Shelly D. Timmons BRIEF ANSWER Nutritional management of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI) may…
28 Does Hypothermia Improve Outcome? Guy L. Clifton BRIEF ANSWER Maintenance of hypothermia in the 23% of severely head-injured patients who are hypothermic on admission and who are less than…
8 What Is the Safest Way to Prevent Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism After Head or Spinal Cord Injury? How Soon After Surgery or Injury Can I Anticoagulate My…
22 Does Following the Recommendations in the Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Make a Difference in Patient Outcome? Roger Hartl and Jamshid Ghajar Whereof one cannot…
15 What Is the Optimal Hematocrit and Hemoglobin for Head-Injured Patients? Harel Deutsch, Jamie S. Ullman BRIEF ANSWER A hematocrit between 30 and 35% is widely believed to be optimal…
33 When Is It Safe to Extubate a Newly Quadriplegic Patient? When Is Early Tracheostomy Appropriate? Ann-Christine Duhaime BRIEF ANSWER Child abuse, or inflicted injury, may be suspected if several…
31 Simultaneous Intracranial and Abdominal Injury: Which Gets Operated on First, and Which Has the Higher Treatment Priority? Colonel John B. Holcomb BRIEF ANSWER Prioritizing surgeries in trauma patients requiring…
47 Which Specialty Should Be in Charge of Neurotraum Patients? Do Patients with Head or Spinal Cord Injur Require a Specialized Neurosurgical Intensive Care Unit Jeffrey M. Lobosky BRIEF ANSWER…
