This is a comprehensive framework for the care needed by children and their famiies following a traumatic brain injury.
AUTHORS’ APPOINTMENTS. FOREWARD: Daune L. MacGregor. PREFACE. EDITOR’S 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.