Sentences with phrase «for brain injury patients»

It works with medical professionals and support staff across the South to raise and improve services for brain injury patients and actively campaigns for change.

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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.

These complications are the medically - indicated reasons for supplementation, which require hospitalization to limit and prevent further brain injury, and they are nearly all preventable with ethically responsible monitoring, patient education and earlier supplementation.

Concussion patients have irregular brain activity within the first 24 hours after their injury but increased levels of brain activity a few weeks later, which suggests that the brain may compensate for the injury during recovery, a new study reports.

«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.

Korley and collaborators around the country wanted to know if a blood test could better predict which patients would have ongoing brain injury - related problems, to provide better treatment for them.

This new study of non-military, civilian trauma patients visiting the emergency department builds on recent research conducted by Dr. Samadani, supported through the Cohen Veterans Center, which found that the use of this novel eye - tracking technology could reveal edema, or swelling, in the brain as a potential biomarker for assessing brain function and monitoring recovery in people with head injuries.

«These very important early clinical trials could provide hope for patients with all sorts of neurologic problems that involve paralysis such as stroke, brain injury, ALS and even multiple sclerosis.»

Researchers from the University of Houston have shown for the first time that the use of a brain - computer interface augmented with a virtual walking avatar can control gait, suggesting the protocol may help patients recover the ability to walk after stroke, some spinal cord injuries and certain other gait disabilities.

For the study, investigators performed continuous patient monitoring following Do Not Resuscitate — Comfort Care orders in patients with devastating brain injury to investigate the mechanisms and timing of events in the brain and the circulation during the dying process.

To date, there is no effective medical or cognitive treatment for patients with traumatic brain injuries.

Pape was inspired to launch the study based on families» feedback while she worked as a speech therapist for coma patients with traumatic brain injuries.

But a new study from Tel Aviv University researchers points to an «enriched environment» — specially enhanced surroundings — as a promising path for the rehabilitation of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) patients.

In humans, this region could be a target for bringing some brain injury patients out of a comatose state via electrical stimulation, says lead author Nigel Pedersen, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and an epilepsy specialist at Emory Brain Health Cebrain injury patients out of a comatose state via electrical stimulation, says lead author Nigel Pedersen, MD, assistant professor of neurology at Emory University School of Medicine and an epilepsy specialist at Emory Brain Health CeBrain Health Center.

Raising cultural awareness among researchers and clinicians is essential to developing patient - centered interventions that reduce health disparities and improve outcomes for all patients with brain injury.

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.

Researchers at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian and the London Imperial College have analyzed the architecture of brain injuries in stroke patients for more than three yBrain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian and the London Imperial College have analyzed the architecture of brain injuries in stroke patients for more than three ybrain injuries in stroke patients for more than three years.

In 2013, U.S. emergency rooms received around 2.8 million patients with traumatic brain injuries, with nearly 50,000 patients dying, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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

«More research is needed to develop treatment protocols for anemic patients with traumatic brain injuries,» said N. Scott Litofsky, M.D., chief of the MU School of Medicine's Division of Neurological Surgery and lead author of the study.

«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.»

Using what are called brain — machine interfaces (BMIs)-- essentially cyborg connections between prosthetic devices and the nervous system — researchers for the first time were able to show that the process of learning to use a BMI - controlled device can trigger significant neurological recovery in patients with chronic spinal cord 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.

«Anemia negatively affects recovery from traumatic brain injuries: Finding lays foundation for new treatment protocols for anemic patients.»

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.

A team of investigators at Wake Forest University in Winston - Salem, N.C., has developed a tool that accounts for variables such as age and severity of brain injury to help physicians and hospital staff calculate a patient's likelihood of survival and returning to independence after hospital discharge.

The findings offer new hope for millions of traumatic brain injury patients, including thousands of veterans wounded in action in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Patients also face increased risk for anxiety, depression, injury, brain damage, and in rare cases, death.

Researchers at Penn Medicine's Center for Studies of Addiction have now found that the drug baclofen, commonly used to prevent spasms in patients with spinal cord injuries and neurological disorders, can help block the impact of the brain's response to «unconscious» drug triggers well before conscious craving occurs.

Dr. Nishimura said, «Our result suggests that in the early stage after brain injury including spinal cord injury, it is important to motivate the patients for promoting functional recovery in rehabilitation.

It is intended for children with attentional difficulties or patients recovering from brain injuries such as concussions.

Ian Burkhart, a 23 - year - old quadriplegic from Dublin, Ohio, is the first patient to use Neurobridge, an electronic neural bypass for spinal cord injuries that reconnects the brain directly to muscles, allowing voluntary and functional control of a paralyzed limb.

As for those patients whose brains are trapped in inanimate bodies, implants that pick up electrical impulses can already translate neural signals to control a cursor, move a wheelchair, or say hello, although they are not now suitable for people with severe brain injuries.

«fMRI, EEG may detect consciousness in patients with acute, severe traumatic brain injury: Massachussetts General study the first to search for covert consciousness in ICU patients.»

Efrati's earlier trials found HBOT induces neuroplasticity that leads to repair of chronically impaired brain functions and improved quality of life for post-stroke and mild traumatic brain injury patients, even years after the initial injury.

Researchers at the Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research at the Assaf Harofeh Medical Center and Tel Aviv University were studying post-traumatic brain injury patients when they realized hyperbaric oxygen treatment (HBOT) could help patients with fibromyalgia.

The standard bedside neurological examination of patients with serious brain injuries may inaccurately indicate that a patient is unconscious for several reasons.

In addition to her expert skill as a clinician, Dr. Frontera also has many research interests including identifying biomarkers and predictors of early brain injury and vasospasm / delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage and their impact on outcome; determining the efficacy of therapeutic strategies and developing guidelines for the management of patients with intracranial hemorrhage; evaluating the cost, length of stay, quality of life, functional and cognitive outcomes in a broader population of intracranial hemorrhage patients; developing guidelines for the integration of palliative care into the intensive care unit setting; and evaluating the relationship of Zika virus infection, Guillain - Barre, and other neurologic disorders.

To see if their therapy can minimize the loss of brain volume, they will scan and measure patients» brains for several months after the injury.

Core areas of research at the institute include work on brain - computer interfaces to aid patients with spinal injury and paralysis; innovative advances in computational neuroscience to address behavior and mood disorders; and research into mechanisms of cell death as part of efforts to identify therapies for neurodegenerative diseases that include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Alzheimer's.

Human Performance and Engineering (Research) to help conduct research activities for several projects in human movement and rehabilitation for traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, and cancer patients.

For over 30 years, I have utilized various aspects of biofeedback in clinical practice, including treating patients with common muscle imbalances, patients with brain and spinal cord injuries, professional athletes and others.

Recovering from a catastrophic injury (spinal cord or traumatic brain) can be an overwhelming experience for patients and families — emotionally, physically and financially.

i) The insured person is accepted for admission, on an in - patient basis, to a public hospital named in a Guideline with positive findings on a computerized axial tomography scan, a magnetic resonance imaging or any other medically recognized brain diagnostic technology indicating intracranial pathology that is a result of the accident, including, but not limited to intracranial contusions or haemorrhages, diffuse axonal injury, cerebral edema, midline shift or phneumocephaly.

That wing of the hospital — the sixth floor - is a neurological care unit, which is the site designated for treatment of patients with traumatic brain injuries and neurological procedures.

Instead the patient was released from the hospital the following day and his undiagnosed infection was allowed to spread for the next two weeks, resulting in his permanent brain injury.

To determine whether a patient sustained a traumatic brain injury, doctors look for the symptoms listed above and conduct imaging tests to study the brain.

Also for concussion patients, depending on injury severity, are requested by physician for no computer exposure for several wks, etc.: the flipping of screen changes, screen scrolling up and down, is tiring when the brain is recovering.

«Very few patients suffering a traumatic brain injury will have arrangements in place regarding their on - going day - to - day commitments,» according to Trevor Sterling, Moore Blatch partner for medical relations.