Surgery: Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) - Neurosurgical Reference Treatise

Surgery · Clinical Specialties

How it begins

Fisiopatología molecular, biomecánica del impacto, síndromes de herniación encefálica, monitorización multimodal en UCI neurocrítica, algoritmos de hipertensión intracraneal y técnicas microquirúrgicas descompresivas. Un compendio sistemático para la práctica neuroquirúrgica avanzada.

What it covers

1. · Impact Mechanics and Primary Injury
2. · The Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) and GCS-P
3. · Initial Care Protocol according to ATLS Guides
4. · Cranial Fractures: Shell and Base
5. · Extraaxial Hematomas: Epidural and Subdural
6. · Parenchymal Damage: Bruises and Diffuse Axonal Injury
7. · Types of Brain Herniations
8. · Criteria for Indication of Cranial CT in Mild Trauma
9. · Prognostic Tomographic Classifications
10. · Intracranial Pressure Monitoring (ICP)
11. · Oxygenation and Brain Metabolism Techniques
12. · General and Basal Support Measures (Level 0)
13. · First Level Treatment: Osmotherapy and CSF Drainage
14. · Second and Third Level Treatment: Rescue Therapies
15. · Surgical Criteria for Direct Indication (BTF Guides)
16. · Decompressive Craniectomy (CD)
17. · Pediatric TBI: Particularities of Childhood
18. · Geriatric TBI: The Frail Elderly Patient
19. · Post-traumatic epilepsy (PTE)
20. · Dysnatremias of Central Origin in TBI
21. · Paroxysmal Sympathetic Hyperactivity (PHS)
22. · Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)