Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) for iOS

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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the main cause of mortality and morbidity in the young population worldwide. Knowing this reality, it is vital that...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is the main cause of mortality and morbidity in the young population worldwide. Knowing this reality, it is vital that every health professional (especially medical students, general practitioners, neurologists, neurosurgeons, and intensive care physicians) dominates the subject.The TBI application aims to aid in learning on this complex subject. The content was developed by a team of neurosurgeons that actuate in Santa Casa de Belo Horizonte - MG (Brazil) and are members of NEUROSURGERY BLOG. It is composed by physicians: Dr. MauroCruz Machado Borgo, Dr. Lucas Alverne Freitas de Albuquerque, Dr. Jlio Leonardo Barbosa Pereira, Dr. Jos Lopes Filho, Dr. Marcello Penholatte Faria, and Prof. Dr. Gervsio Teles Cardoso de Carvalho.The application has more than 10 schematic figures, and more than 20 pictures of real cases, main neurological scales, and updated surgical indications to facilitate learning.Subjects approached in the application:1. INTRODUCTION TO TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY (TBI)2. TBI PHYSIOPATHOLOGY3. TBI CLASSIFICATIONS4. TBI CLINICAL PRESENTATION5. TBI COMPLEMENTARY DIAGNOSIS6. TBI TREATMENT7. TBI PROGNOSIS8. EPIDURAL HEMATOMA9. ACUTE SUBDURAL HEMATOMA10. CHRONIC SUBDURAL HEMATOMA11. POST-TRAUMATIC INTRAPARENCHYMAL HEMATOMA12. CONCUSSION AND DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY (DAI)13. FRACTURE OF SKULL BASE14. WOUNDS BY FIREARMS15. DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY16. PRINCIPLES FOR INTENSIVE MANAGEMENT OF SEVERE TBI17. MONITORING AND INTENSIVE MANAGEMENT OF SEVERE TBI18. BASIC PRINCIPLES FOR EVD MANAGEMENT19. MAIN CLINICAL COMPLICATIONS20. WATER AND SODIUM METABOLISM DISORDER21. NEUROLOGICAL EXAM IN COMA22. ENCEPHALIC DEATH