Härtl R, Gerber LM, Ni Q, Ghajar J. Effect of early nutrition on deaths due to severe traumatic brain injury. J Neurosurg 2008 Jul;109(1):50-56.
http://thejns.org/doi/abs/10.3171/JNS/2008/109/7/0050
http://thejns.org/doi/full/10.3171/JNS/2008/109/7/0050
http://thejns.org/doi/pdf/10.3171/JNS/2008/109/7/0050
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J Neurosurg. 2008 Jul;109(1):50-6.
Effect of early nutrition on deaths due to severe traumatic brain injury.
Härtl R, Gerber LM, Ni Q, Ghajar J.
1 Departments of Neurological Surgery and, 2 Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College; and, 3 Brain Trauma Foundation, New York, New York.
Object Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a serious public health crisis requiring continuous improvement in pre-hospital and inhospital care. This condition results in a hypermetabolic state that increases systemic and cerebral energy requirements, but achieving adequate nutrition to meet this demand has not been a priority in reducing death due to TBI. The effect of timing and quantity of nutrition on death within the first 2 weeks of injury was analyzed in a large prospective database of adult patients with severe TBI in New York State. Methods The study is based on 797 patients with severe TBI (Glasgow Coma Scale [GCS] score
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