From: Targeted temperature management in traumatic brain injury
 | Diffuse brain injury | Focal brain injury |
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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 |