Mild traumatic brain injury: Key decisions in acute management

Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 797-806

  Jagoda, Andy S ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mild traumatic brain injury; Neurobehavioral; Postconcussive disorders; Rehabilitation; Sequelae

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN S100B;

AMNESIA; ANAMNESIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFUSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONSULTATION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISORIENTATION; EMERGENCY WARD; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EYE MOVEMENT; FALLING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTCONCUSSION SYNDROME; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WORK RESUMPTION;

BRAIN; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURIES; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78549283492     PISSN: 0193953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psc.2010.09.004     Document Type: Review

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