Sentences with phrase «head injury patients with»

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For example, a junior nurse heading into a team meeting with a patient with a sports injury might volunteer to the doctor that he underwent a similar surgery in college.

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.

«Two patients who suffer a head injury and present with virtually - identical CT - scans might have completely different symptoms,» Dr. Samadani points out.

The randomized, placebo - controlled study, Familiar Auditory Sensory Training (FAST), enrolled 15 patients with traumatic closed head injuries who were in a vegetative or minimally conscious state.

«Head injury patients develop brain clumps associated with Alzheimer's disease.»

The patients with head injury were found to have more amyloid plaques than the healthy volunteers, but fewer than those with Alzheimer's disease.

«Patients with head injuries do better when treated by trauma centers, even if it means bypassing other hospitals: Study shows a major opportunity to improve outcomes for the half of severe head injury patients who are brought to hospitals without trauma centersPatients with head injuries do better when treated by trauma centers, even if it means bypassing other hospitals: Study shows a major opportunity to improve outcomes for the half of severe head injury patients who are brought to hospitals without trauma centerspatients who are brought to hospitals without trauma centers.»

Prior research has demonstrated that patients under 55 have significantly improved outcomes if treated in trauma centers, but these studies did not determine if older adults or patients with isolated head injuries had the same benefits.

They identified 62,198 patients with severe, isolated head injuries who had been taken either to a trauma center (56 percent) or to a non-trauma center capable of performing neurosurgery (44 percent).

In one common device, movie patients lose their memory after a blow to the head, then regain it with a second injury.

Despite also having more severe head and systemic injuries, patients with lower levels of hemoglobin had a poor outcome.

«If our findings can be translated into humans this could be life - changing for patients with head injuries.»

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).

Researchers conducted a prospective observational study in elderly patients and adult patients receiving antiplatelet therapy who presented with mild head injury at two trauma hospitals in Vienna: the Trauma Hospital Meidling and the Donauspital.

«Being aware of the number of a patient's head injuries and the interrelation with depression and other psychological symptoms may help us better understand, and thus moderate, the risk of suicide over time,» Bryan says.

Three months after the injury, 21.2 percent of head - injured and 16.3 percent of nonhead - injured patients met the diagnosis of PCS; 8.8 percent of head - injured patients met the criteria for PTSD compared with 2.2 percent of control patients.

Zinc supplementation is associated with improved neurologic recovery rate and visceral protein levels of patients with severe closed head injury.

Patients with closed head injuries and in intensive care units, for example, are particularly at risk of so - called «stress ulcers.»

I have always pointed out to the junior doctors I have trained, that patients with a neurosurgical emergency will seldom walk in evidently displaying that they have a such a problem; it really is up to the doctors and nurses to realise that this is not one of the 50 other patients that have attended in the last week with a more common minor head injury.

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Many patients with head injuries deny the problem.

Assisted patients with debilitating conditions such as back pain, arthritis, fractures, sports injuries, head injuries and strokes.

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We see patients who struggle with anxiety, depression, emotional and cognitive issues following head injury.