Citation

Castellanos-Pinedo F, Cid-Gala M, Duque P, Ramirez-Moreno JM, Zurdo-Hernandez JM, En Nombre Del Grupo de Trabajo Del Plan de Atencion Al Dano Cerebral Sobrevenido de Extremadura EN. Rev. Neurol. 2012; 54(6): 357-366.

Vernacular Title

Dano cerebral sobrevenido: propuesta de definicion, criterios diagnosticos y

Affiliation

Hospital Virgen del Puerto, 10600 Plasencia, Espana.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Revista de Neurologia)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

22403149

Abstract

Acquired brain injury is a heterogeneous clinical concept that goes beyond the limits of the classical medical view, which tends to define processes and diseases on the grounds of a single causation. Although in the medical literature it appears fundamentally associated to traumatic brain injury, there are many other causes and management is similar in all of them, during the post-acute and chronic phases, as regards the measures to be taken concerning rehabilitation and attention to dependence. Yet, despite being an important health issue, today we do not have a set of diagnostic criteria or a classification for this condition. This is a serious handicap when it comes to carrying out epidemiological studies, designing specific care programmes and comparing results among different programmes and centres. Accordingly, the Extremadura Acquired Brain Injury Health Care Plan working group has drawn up these proposed diagnostic criteria, definition and classification. The proposal is intended to be essentially practical, its main purpose being to allow correct identification of the cases that must be attended to and to optimise the use of neurorehabilitation and attention to dependence resources, thereby ensuring attention is provided on a fair basis.

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