Section 1: The Injury ; 1. Epidemiology; 2. Biomechanics of Closed Head Injury; 3. Pathology; 4. Primary and Secondary Brain Injury; 5. Intracranial Pressure and Elastance; 6. Injury and Cell Function; Section 2: Measuring and Monitoring Injury ; 7. Clinical Examination and Grading; 8. Alcohol, other Drugs and Head Injury; 9. Imaging the Injury; 10. Monitoring Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism; 11. Electrical Function Monitoring; 12. Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; Section 3: Treatment ; 13
From Accident Site to Trauma Centre; 14. The Intensive Care Management of Head Injury; 15. Sedation and Anaesthesia in Head Injury; 16. Management of intracranial pressure and cerebral perfusion pressure; 17. Paediatric Head Injury; 18. The Role of Surgery for intracranial mass lesions after head injury; 19. Missile Wounds of the Head; 20. Neuroprotection in Traumatic Brain Injury; 21. Outcome after Severe Head Injury; 22. Outcome Prediction after Severe Head Injury; 23
Brain Death -- Clinical and Confirmatory Tests; Appendices ; A: Antibiotic therapy for CNS infections; B: Seizure management in acute head injury; C: Possible causes of status epilepticus after head injury; D: Cardiovascular drugs used to augment cerebral perfusion pressure
