TY - CHAP AU - Edilene Curvelo Hora AU - Liane Viana Santana AU - Lyvia de Jesus Santos AU - Gizelle de Oliveira Souza AU - Analys Vasconcelos Pimentel AU - Natalia Tenório Cavalcante Bezerra AU - Sylvia Rodrigues de Freitas Doria AU - Tiago Pinheiro Vaz de Carvalho AU - Afonso Abreu Mendes Júnior AU - Jessica Almeida Rodrigues AU - Renata Julie Porto Leite Lopes AU - Ricardo Fakhouri ED - Farid Sadaka Y1 - 2014-02-19 PY - 2014 T1 - Communication Disorders Following Traumatic Brain Injury N2 - Traumatic brain injury is a major source of death and severe disability worldwide. This book provides an excellent and detailed overview of the management of patients with traumatic brain injury, in a stepwise approach, from the intensive care unit, through to discharge from the hospital, rehabilitation, recovery and assimilation in family and society. This book also discusses mechanisms of pathophysiology pertaining to traumatic brain injury and provides grounds for future research in traumatic brain injury, especially pertaining to pathophysiology, imaging, neuroprognostication, rehabilitation, recovery, and outcomes. BT - Traumatic Brain Injury SP - Ch. 20 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/57321 DO - 10.5772/57321 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-25 ER -