Summary Of Traumatic Brain Injury: A Case Study
Kristin Rupich is an acute care nurse practitioner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In this article, Rupich examined six research studies investigating the use of hypothermia in patients with a traumatic brain injury. The effects associated hypothermia as on patients with a secondary brain injury. This article also discusses the complications that arose throughout the process, as well as the outcomes of the research studies and the patients in the hypothermia and normthermia groups.
In the United States 1.4 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury each year. Doctors and practitioners have devoted their research into curing symptoms associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Hypothermia has been shown to have neuroprotective effects, although it remains controversial to this day. The neuroprotective effect will minimize the effects induced from secondary brain injuries. Hypothermia prevents cell death by inhibiting …show more content…
A secondary injury is a biochemical and cellular response to the primary injury that begins within minutes or hours after the initial damage. This injury harms the tissue that was not involved in the primary injury (Dutton & McCunn, 2003). Moreover, secondary injuries lead to widespread tissue damage and neurological damages by affecting brain oxygenation. In this article Rupich discusses six research studies revolving around hypothermia as a treatment for secondary TBI. Each study compared a hypothermia with a controlled normthermia group. The studies used a different method of cooling, the timing ideal for cooling, cooling temperature selected, and the duration of cooling. The patients in each study were chosen on admission to the hospital, if they had a closed head injury, and a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) of three to eight. One research study used to water-circulating cooling blankets that were noninvasive and posed no risk of
In the United States 1.4 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury each year. Doctors and practitioners have devoted their research into curing symptoms associated with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Hypothermia has been shown to have neuroprotective effects, although it remains controversial to this day. The neuroprotective effect will minimize the effects induced from secondary brain injuries. Hypothermia prevents cell death by inhibiting …show more content…
A secondary injury is a biochemical and cellular response to the primary injury that begins within minutes or hours after the initial damage. This injury harms the tissue that was not involved in the primary injury (Dutton & McCunn, 2003). Moreover, secondary injuries lead to widespread tissue damage and neurological damages by affecting brain oxygenation. In this article Rupich discusses six research studies revolving around hypothermia as a treatment for secondary TBI. Each study compared a hypothermia with a controlled normthermia group. The studies used a different method of cooling, the timing ideal for cooling, cooling temperature selected, and the duration of cooling. The patients in each study were chosen on admission to the hospital, if they had a closed head injury, and a Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) of three to eight. One research study used to water-circulating cooling blankets that were noninvasive and posed no risk of