Medical Rehabilitation of Traumatic Brain Injury
| Autor: | Mary Dombovy |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Rehabilitation business.industry Traumatic brain injury medicine.medical_treatment Diffuse axonal injury Target audience Medical rehabilitation medicine.disease humanities Physical medicine and rehabilitation nervous system Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Primary prevention medicine Neurology (clinical) Misinformation business Psychiatry health care economics and organizations |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Neurology. 53:962-962 |
| ISSN: | 0003-9942 |
| Popis: | Medical Rehabilitation of Traumatic Brain Injury is a new text attempting to comprehensively address medical and rehabilitation issues following traumatic brain injury (TBI), but falls far short of this goal. The target audience and purposes are not clearly outlined in the preface and the book suffers from overall organizational problems: the chapters do not appear in a logical order (except for the first 3) and the section headings do not accurately describe the chapters that follow. Chapter 1 on epidemiology begins with a historical and rather wordy discussion on the appropriate definition of TBI, but does contain a nice detailed discussion of epidemiology and primary prevention. Chapter 2 contains misinformation on the pathology of TBI (axons are likely not truly "sheared," as axonal separation and retraction bulb formation take approximately 12 hours to appear) and mild TBI (the pathology is known: it is diffuse axonal injury, simply less of it |
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