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Filter by:Neurocritical care is a major branch in the field of critical care medicine, and more than 50% of the neurocritical care patients in the Tibet Autonomous Region People's Hospital (TARPH) are in neurocritical care, of which cranial damage accounts for about 30%, and paroxysmal sympathetic hyperexcitability syndrome (PSH) after traumatic brain injury（TBI）is a common complication, which affects the cardiorespiratory and cerebral functions to varying degrees, and optimizing the cerebral perfusion and oxygenation supply is the key point in the treatment of TIB, and the maintenance of the cerebral homeostasis and the functional homeostasis is currently an international hotspot for treatment. Maintaining cerebral homeostasis and body function homeostasis is an international hotspot in the treatment of TIB. This study intends to elaborate on the relationship between PSH and Intracranial blood flow in patients with TBI, as well as the effect of anti-stress treatment on Intracranial blood flow. Implementation Patients with brain injury admitted to our department from January 2021 to January 2022 were included. Non-invasive transcranial Doppler ultrasound was applied to measure cerebral blood flow, non-invasive local cerebral oxygen saturation monitor to measure local cerebral oxygen saturation, and an electroencephalography bispectrometer to measure BIS score to quantify the depth of sedation during the experimental process. Bedside ultrasound monitored the right heart function and lung water status, and the data of each monitoring index were monitored and recorded throughout the whole process, and the relationship between concomitant PSH and Intracranial blood flow in TBI patients was found according to the statistical analysis. Ultimately, to achieve the control of TBI complications and improve patient rescue. To expect to achieve the purpose of improving the prognosis of TBI patients.
This is an implementation study of the Pittsburgh Infant Brain Injury Score (PIBIS) into the UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh emergency department. Children less than 1 year of age presenting to the CHP ED for symptoms which place them at increased risk for AHT as defined in the PIBIS validation study will be potentially eligible.
Unconscious survivors of cardiac arrest who are treated with intravenous therapeutic hypothermia for 24 hours will be assessed after 12 hours for appropriateness to be woken early and extubated whilst continuing to receive therapeutic hypothermia. Sedation will be reduced/stopped at 12 hours to enable a comprehensive neurological assessment utilising a multimodal approach. Providing the patient is clinically stable with no adverse neurological signs the patient will be extubated. Patients who remain unconscious will be reviewed 6 hourly for neurological recovery and their suitability to be extubated in line with standard practice.
Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is damage to the brain caused by a head injury or illness/disease such as stroke or aneurysm. ABI is often associated with poor awareness into ongoing symptoms of damage to the brain, which can be cognitive, physical, and psychological. A multi-disciplinary rehabilitation programme is recommended to help with such symptoms. However, without self-awareness of difficulties, people with ABI can have poor motivation to take part. The study aims to discover whether showing people a short 'preparatory' video about ABI rehabilitation has an effect on self-awareness, and their motivation to take part in rehabilitation offered to them. The study also aims to investigate the feasibility of using the preparatory video on a larger scale across inpatient ABI rehabilitation, by exploring whether staff find delivering the video easy to incorporate into routine practice. People invited to take part in the study will be recruited from a specialist inpatient brain injury rehabilitation unit (BIRT). People who are approached will be given information about what the study will involve, and can choose not to take part. Each participant will be asked to fill out a series of questionnaires. They will then be supported by staff to watch a short video every two/three days, over four weeks. Half of the participants will be shown the video right away, while the other half will wait two weeks, to allow for comparisons between the groups. The video will aim to improve understanding of the kinds of emotional and/or practical difficulties they may be experiencing, and will inform participants about what rehabilitation might be like. After they have regularly watched the video for four weeks both sets of participants will be asked to complete another set of questionnaires, and the staff will be asked to complete an evaluation of how they found delivering the video.
Malnutrition is defined by an energy supply deficit, protein, macro-molecules or micro-nutrients, resulting from an imbalance between nutrient intakes and metabolic needs of the body. It concerns 40 to 60% of patients upon entry into resuscitation and influences their prognosis. Studies over the past decade have shown that nutritional deficiency increases the morbidity and mortality in intensive care. Several clinical and biological parameters were evaluated as markers of malnutrition, including the ratio of urea / urine creatinine. The report would identify patients in a state of malnutrition, to optimize their nutritional care. This setting is easy to obtain in all patients by simple urine collection unlike other clinical and biological criteria of resuscitation malnutrition assessment. This ratio of urea / urien creatinine would optimize energy intake of critically ill patients, for which nutritional management methods are widely debated.
This research focuses on the development and validation of indicators on the appropriateness of oral anticoagulant prescriptions. The investigators want to propose transferable tools to other healthcare institutions to allow automated construction of indicators as part of a structured approach to improve future practices. The main objective of the study is to develop indicators on the appropriateness of oral anticoagulant prescriptions in adult medicine automated from the hospital information system and to assess their criterion validity.
The purpose of this study is to develop appropriate training methods and gather participant feedback on their use of the Passy Muir Swallowing Self-Training Device (PMSST). The PMSST is a small device that provides external vibratory stimulation to the larynx during swallowing and swallowing training. A secondary purpose of the study is to determine how 3 months of use of the PMSST affects swallowing physiology, brain activation, oral intake and quality of life. This was an uncontrolled pilot study aimed at gaining patient feedback on use of the vibratory device.
Verticalization was reported to improve the level of arousal and awareness in patients with severe acquired brain injury (ABI) and to be safe in ICU. The investigators evaluated the effectiveness of a very early stepping verticalization protocol on the functional and neurological outcome of patients affected by disorder of consciousness due to ABI. Consecutive patients with Vegetative State or Minimally Conscious State were enrolled in ICU on the third day after an ABI. They were randomized to undergo conventional physiotherapy alone or associated to fifteen 30-minute sessions of verticalization, using a tilt table with robotic stepping device. Once stabilized, patients were transferred to a Neurorehabilitation unit for an individualized treatment. Outcome measures were assessed on the third day from the injury (T0), at ICU discharge (T1) and at Rehab discharge (T2).
This is a prospective investigation of the effects of Laughter therapy (LT) on perceived stress, self-efficacy, mood and other wellness measures in people with the following neurological conditions: Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, brain injury, Huntington's Disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, post-stroke, spinal cord injury.
Our central hypothesis is that chronic balance deficits after mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) result from impairments in central sensorimotor integration (CSMI) that may be helped by rehabilitation. There are two objectives of this proposal; the first objective is to characterize balance deficits in people with mTBI. The second objective is to use a novel auditory bio-feedback (ABF) device to improve measures central sensorimotor integration and balance control.