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Prognosis of Brain Failure in the Intensive Care Unit

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Brain Failure

Part of the book series: Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((UICM,volume 9))

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Patients with acute brain failure due to traumatic injury, subarachnoid and intracerebral hemorrage, stroke and ischemic-anoxic brain damage are frequently encountered in the Intensive Care Unit. It is a well known and puzzling fact that within the groups of patients with the same etiology of brain failure, there can be a great variability in the recovery from cerebral damage that appears initially to be clinically similar. Therefore, the identification of prognostic factors, in the early stage of brain failure is very important. Early prediction of ultimate disability after brain damage orientates the clinical decision in individual patient, facilitates family counselling and allows the definition of subpopulation of patients with a similar potential for recovery, in whom the efficacy of various prophylactic and therapeutic regimens may be assessed in prospective studies.

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  1. Intensive Care Unit, Guy’s Hospital, St. Thomas Street, London, SE1 9RT, UK

    David Bihari

  2. Department of Neuropsychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC, 20307, USA

    John W. Holaday

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Hemmer, M. (1989). Prognosis of Brain Failure in the Intensive Care Unit. In: Bihari, D., Holaday, J.W. (eds) Brain Failure. Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 9. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83929-0_20

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