The rational management of patients with head injury calls for the closest cooperation between the radiologist and neurosurgeon. Until the last three to four years, cerebral angiography had been considered the diagnostic procedure of choice for the management of patients with suspected traumatically ...
Elevations in intracranial pressure following an accident can lead to brain injury and damage to the spinal cord. Currently, such increases are detected directly using a sensor that is surgically inserted into the patient's head via a hole made in the skull. The procedure must be carried out i...
Emergency department discharge of patients with a negative cranial computed tomography scan after minimal head injury. The reasons for this practice are multifactorial and include the perceived false-negative rate of all standard diagnostic tests, the belief that admission ... DH Livingston,RF Lavery,...
Objective To summarize the diagnostic and therapeutic experience of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage(SAH)presenting with head injury.Methods Between June 2003 and June 2008,55 cases with aneurysmal SAH presenting with head injury were included in this study.According to the relationship between SAH and...
The number of older people in prisons is increasing across the globe. Many have poor physical and mental health, higher prevalence of head injury, cognitive impairment and dementia than found in community populations. Meeting the complex needs of this vu
Genome sequencing is a potentially first-tier genetic test for CMC. Introduction Children with medical complexity (CMC)1-4 have at least 1 chronic condition, technology dependence, multiple subspecialist involvement, and substantial health care use. Although these children compose less than 1% of the...
Verification of scintigraphic imaging for injury diagnosis in 264 horses with foot pain. Reasons for performing study : Nuclear scintigraphy is commonly used as a diagnostic aid for foot pain, but there is limited information about different pa... S.J. Dyson,R.C. Murray - 《Equine Veterinary ...
The chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test was used for nominal variables, and the Mann–Whitney U test was used for continuous variables. The diagnostic accuracy of qSOFA score ≥ 2 and each criterion for bacteremia, including sensitivity, specificity, positive/negative predictive value, or ...
During his career as a defensive lineman, he sustained many head-to-head collisions resulting in one episode of loss of consciousness. He was never hospitalized for a head injury, referred for brain imaging, or formally diagnosed with concussion in the past. Other than as a part of his ...
for new symptoms (eg, attributing weight loss and cough to a patient’s chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, leading to delayed lung cancer diagnosis), and failure to monitor evolving symptoms (eg, normal results from cranial imagining shortly after head injury but chronic subdural hematoma later ...