Management of brain-injured children
By: edited by Richard Appleton and Tony Baldwin.
Contributors: Appleton, Richard, 1955-; Baldwin, Tony.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780198567240
Subjects: Brain-damaged children -- Rehabilitation.; Brain Injuries.; Brain Injuries -- rehabilitation.; Child.; Craniocerebral Trauma.; Infant.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Epidemiology; value: incidence, causes, severity and outcome / Richard Appleton; value: Resuscitation and acute treatment of brain injuries (traumatic and atraumatic) / Jane Ratcliffe; value: Head (brain) injury rehabilitation team / Richard Appleton, Liz Furlong, and Tony Baldwin; value: Immediate medical and nursing needs / Liz Furlong ... [et al.]; value: Physical (motor and functional) problems / Nicola Henderson, Eileen Kinley, Sue Loughran ; with contributions from Susie Harrison, Paul Ritson, and Juliet Weston; value: Feeding and swallowing problems / Helen Gore and Suzanne Tyrer; value: Speech and language problems / Helen Gore and Suzanne Tyrer; value: Cognitive problems / Tony Baldwin ... [et al.]; value: Emotional, behavioural, psychiatric and social problems / Colin Demellweek, Tony Baldwin, and Peter Rankin; value: The impact of brain injury on the family / Colin Demellweek and Richard Appleton; value: Community liaison / Jackie Gregg and Tony Baldwin; value: Prevention of brain injury / Jackie Gregg and Richard Appleton; value: The future / Richard Appleton; value: A parent's and her daughter's view / Paula and Lizzie Pearson.