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Table 1 Type and pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury

From: Targeted temperature management in traumatic brain injury

 

Diffuse brain injury

Focal brain injury

Primary brain injury

• Diffuse axonal injury

• Petechial white matter hemorrhage with diffuse vascular injury

• Focal cortical contusion

• Intracerebral hemorrhage

• Extracerebral hemorrhage (i.e., ASDH, AEDH)

Secondary brain injury

• Delayed neuronal injury

• Diffuse brain swelling

• Diffuse ischemic injury

• Diffuse hypoxic injury

• Diffuse metabolic dysfunction

• Delayed neuronal injury

• Focal brain swelling

• Focal ischemic injury

• Focal hypoxic injury

• Regional metabolic dysfunction

  1. ASDH acute subdural hematoma, AEDH acute epidural hematoma