Sadowski-Cron, Charlotte; Schneider, Jörg; Senn, Pascal; Radanov, Bogdan P; Ballinari, Pietro; Zimmermann, Heinz (2006). Patients with mild traumatic brain injury: immediate and long-term outcome compared to intra-cranial injuries on CT scan. Brain injury, 20(11), pp. 1131-1137. London: Informa Healthcare 10.1080/02699050600832569
Full text not available from this repository. (Request a copy)BACKGROUND: Mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) defined as Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) 14 or 15 has shown contradictory short- and long-term outcomes. The objective of this study was to correlate intra-cranial injuries (ICI) on CT scan to neurocognitive tests at admission and to complaints after 1 year. METHODS: Two hundred and five patients with MTBI underwent a CT scan and were examined with neurocognitive tests. After 1 year complaints were assessed by phone interviews. RESULTS: The neurocognitive tests in 51% of the patients showed significant deficits; there was no difference for patients with GCS 14-15, nor was there a difference between patients with ICI to patients without. After 1 year patients with ICI had significantly more complaints than patients without ICI, the most frequent complaint was headache and memory deficits. CONCLUSIONS: No correlation was found between GCS or ICI and the neurocognitive tests upon admission. After 1 year, patients with ICI have significantly more complaints than patients without ICI. No cost savings resulted by doing immediate CT scan on all.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Cognitive Psychology, Perception and Methodology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesiology (DINA) > University Emergency Center |
UniBE Contributor: |
Ballinari, Pietro, Zimmermann, Heinz (B) |
ISSN: |
0269-9052 |
Publisher: |
Informa Healthcare |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Factscience Import |
Date Deposited: |
04 Oct 2013 14:46 |
Last Modified: |
29 Mar 2023 23:32 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1080/02699050600832569 |
PubMed ID: |
17123929 |
Web of Science ID: |
000242357600003 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/19190 (FactScience: 1636) |
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