Head Injury in Childhood and Adolescence [Hardcover]

FOREWARD: Daune L. MacGregor.

PREFACE.

EDITORS PREFACE.

PRESENTATION AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGY.

Acute Brain Injury: Charles Matouk and Abhaya Kulkarni.

Diagnostic Imaging: Helen M. Branson and Manohar Shroff.

Mild Closed Head Injury: Shay Menascu and Daune L. MacGregor.

TREATMENT.

Acute and Emergency Management: Charles Matouk, Jamie Hutchison, Anne-Marie Guerguerian and Abhaya.

Kulkarni.

Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation: Peter Rumney.

OUTCOMES.

Overview of Outcomes: Peter Rumney.

Neuropsychiatric Outcomes: Chanth Seyone, Babita Kara and Nicola Hunt.

Sleep and Metabolism: Shelly Weiss, Rajesh Ramachandran Nair and Daune L. MacGregor.

Neuropsychological Consequences: Erin M. Picard and Mary L. Stewart.

Comunication Rehabilitation: Kim Bradley and Maya Kashida Rattray.

Rehabilitation Therapy: Janet Woodhouse and Trish Geisler.

Educational Outcomes: Pamela Speed.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS.

Head Injury: Looking Towards the Future: Peter B. Dirks

Daune Macgregor and Abhaya Kulkarni are the authors of Head Injury in Childhood and Adolescence, published by Wiley.This is a comprehensive framework for the care needed by children and their famiies following a traumatic brain injury. Traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents is a significant epidemiological and health problem in all countries of the world. Severe brain injury forever alters the lives of lS<