Sentences with phrase «brain injury patients who»

«The potential utility of the peripheral vision reaction test is clear because it is an objective, inexpensive, and rapid test that identifies mild traumatic brain injury patients who have a more severe underlying injury.»

Not exact matches

In the practice of critical care medicine, we sometimes end up caring for patients who have suffered severe illness or injury and are deteriorating toward brain death.

Many patients who are diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury have diminished brain function, headaches and other symptoms that last for weeks or even months.

That might mean patients who suffer traumatic brain injury not only suffer from the physical damage of the blow to the head but also from the resulting inflammatory response, especially within the first 24 hours.

«What we're showing in this paper is that patients who used a brain - machine interface for a long period of time experienced improvements in motor behavior, tactile sensations and visceral functions below the level of the spinal cord injury,» he said.

This new study builds on previous research from this group showing that elevated blood levels of SNTF on the day of a mild traumatic brain injury treated in the emergency room predicted those patients who would go on to suffer diffuse axonal injury and long - term cognitive dysfunction.

The researchers also found a striking demonstration of the underlying brain regions that are involved in gambling when they studied the gambling behaviour of patients who had experienced brain injury due to a tumour or stroke.

Brain scans of a 23 - year - old woman who, in a traffic accident, sustained head injuries so severe she met the clinical criteria for a vegetative state are forcing many doctors to reconsider what they know about such patients» awareness.

After the tests, the researchers found that these tasks were «impaired» in those patients who had injuries in the area of the brain «involved» in attention.

«And we had a team of neurologists who helped characterize the nature and scope of the patients» brain injuries.»

The study included 446 patients who suffered traumatic brain injuries and underwent a urine test for the presence of THC in their system.

The findings also might apply to other trauma patients, including patients who have suffered traumatic brain injuries, said senior author Mashkoor Choudhry, PhD.

«The similarities in the injuries between the two groups led to the conclusion that testing positive for THC in the system is associated with a decreased mortality in adult patients who have sustained traumatic brain injuries.»

The need for ongoing care for hearing - related issues was acknowledged in September 2014 when One Fund Boston, the charity created to accept and distribute donations to help those affected by the bombings, created the One Fund Center, which will serve patients who have had difficulties with tinnitus and other hearing - related problems; mental health issues, including post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety; and traumatic brain injury and its associated symptoms such as headache, cognitive symptoms and balance difficulties.

The study shows that one out of three stroke patients who present with at - risk brain tissue on their scans improve and some may walk out of the hospital saved from what would otherwise have been a devastating brain injury.»

It's too early to say whether the method will be useful for most apparently unaware and unresponsive brain injury patients, however, says Nicholas Schiff, a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City who wasn't involved in the research.

Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have shown that soccer players who frequently head the ball have brain abnormalities resembling those found in patients with concussion (mild traumatic brain injury).

Clues to the underlying causes of boredom have come from patients who suffer traumatic brain injuries (TBI).

To develop their predictive model, Dr. Miller and colleagues evaluated 57,588 patients in the National Trauma Data Bank over age 50 who had blunt trauma with isolated brain injury.

Early in her restless, inventive career, Elizabeth Phelps was trying to understand the deep structure of memory by showing word lists to people with amnesia — patients who'd survived a brain injury or stroke but lost the ability to remember.

Such loss of visual function can be observed in patients who have suffered a stroke or traumatic brain injury or when the oxygen supply to the brain has been reduced (cerebral hypoxia).

During a six - month period in 2009, 161 patients who received a suspected brain injury while on duty in Iraq were referred to an outpatient TBI clinic at a combat support hospital there.

Each instance showcased evidence of safety and tolerability, wherein the patients who sustained life - threatening brain injuries recovered brain health with the aid of omega - 3 fatty acids (n - 3FA).

If a patient escapes outright brain death, some improvement can be expected, especially among those who survive trauma rather than oxygen - deprivation injuries, such as a stroke or heart attack.

«Our study suggests that deficiencies in the pituitary's growth hormone and testosterone are commonly seen after blast traumatic brain injury, especially in patients who are overweight.

Previous studies suggested that stimulation of thalamic neurons may awaken patients who have suffered a traumatic brain injury from minimally conscious states.

In recent years, improvements in intensive care have led to an increase in the number of patients who survive severe brain injury.

The use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) may be able to identify ICU patients with severe traumatic brain injuries who have a level of consciousness not revealed by the standard bedside neurological examination.

Penn recently joined a national, multi-center study — TRACK TBI (Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury)-- which hopes to develop «methods to identify patients who have a particular injury mechanism, who can then be targeted by a specific therapy,» said Diaz - Arrastia, who is one of the study's national leaders.

That's not news to malpractice attorney Leon Aussprung, a former physician who has handled scores of cases where patients have died of heart attack or suffered brain injuries because they didn't get proper care in the emergency room.

The sealed vessel «The Proteus» is reduced down to microscopic size and it's crew through a secret organizational branch known as the «CMDF» (Combined Miniature Defense Force or Combined Miniature Deterrent Forces) and are injected into the artery of a defecting Russian scientist who has suffered a brain injury and is in a coma from an assassination attempt on his life... The CMDF's Mission... to navigate inside the body of the scientist to get to the brain (within exactly 60 minutes) where Dr. Duval and the team of the «Proteus» will attempt to dissolve to coagulum with a laser beam and get back to the center of the patient's body before everything starts growing back to its original size.

The study found that patients who suffer from psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) after a traumatic brain injury may be more likely to suffer from:

Terry Regan (who attracts praise for his «sympathetic and patient handling of cases») heads the practice, which includes John Vallance; collectively they bring more than 50 years of experience handling clinical negligence claims involving brain injury, cancer, product liability, cosmetic surgery and the Human Rights Act.

Researchers have found that patients with a TBI are more likely to experience depression than those who have not had a brain injury.

Patients who score less than 13 on the Glasgow Coma Scale are typically diagnosed with a moderate to severe brain injury.

A patient who receives a GCS score of 13 to 15 is typically diagnosed with a mild brain injury.

For added team spirit and comradery, the seven patients wore matching polo - shirts and tracksuits sponsored by law firm Hugh James» Cardiff - based neurolaw team, who specialise in spinal injuries and traumatic brain injuries.

Neuropsychologists see patients who have experienced a wide range of conditions, including suspected neurological disease (e.g. Alzheimer's disease), cerebrovascular disease, movement disorders, concussion / brain injury, memory loss, attention deficit, pain, sleep issues (insomnia, sleep apnea), chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety»