Journal article
INCOG Recommendations for Management of Cognition Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Part I
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: After traumatic brain injury (TBI) and emergence from coma, the majority of people experience posttraumatic amnesia (PTA), characterized by confusion, disorientation, retrograde and anterograde amnesia, poor attention, and sometimes agitation and delusions. An international team of researchers and clinicians developed recommendations for assessment and management of PTA.
METHODS: The experts met to select recommendations, then …
Authors
Ponsford J; Janzen S; McIntyre A; Bayley M; Velikonja D; Tate R
Journal
Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 307–320
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
Publication Date
July 2014
DOI
10.1097/htr.0000000000000074
ISSN
0885-9701