1.Traumatic brain injury: A case-based review
Liza Victoria S ESCOBEDO ; Habboushe JOSEPH ; Kaafarani HAYTHAM ; Velmahos GEORGE ; Shah KAUSHAL ; Lee JARONE
World Journal of Emergency Medicine 2013;4(4):252-259
BACKGROUND: Traumatic brain injuries are common and costly to hospital systems. Most of the guidelines on management of traumatic brain injuries are taken from the Brain Trauma Foundation Guidelines. This is a review of the current literature discussing the evolving practice of traumatic brain injury. DATA SOURCES: A literature search using multiple databases was performed for articles published through September 2012 with concentration on meta-analyses, systematic reviews, and randomized controlled trials. URESULTS: The focus of care should be to minimize secondary brain injury by surgically decompressing certain hematomas, maintain systolic blood pressure above 90 mmHg, oxygen saturations above 93%, euthermia, intracranial pressures below 20 mmHg, and cerebral perfusion pressure between 60–80 mmHg. CONCLUSION: Much is still unknown about the management of traumatic brain injury. The current practice guidelines have not yet been sufficiently validated, however equipoise is a major issue when conducting randomized control trials among patients with traumatic brain injury.
2.Gastrointestinal histoplasmosis: a case series from a non-endemic region in North India
Harshal S MANDAVDHARE ; Jimil SHAH ; Kaushal K PRASAD ; Roshan AGARWALA ; Vikas SURI ; Savita KUMARI ; Usha DUTTA ; Vishal SHARMA
Intestinal Research 2019;17(1):149-152
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Histoplasmosis
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India