Critical Assessment of the Guidelines-Based Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury with the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation II.

Background: Severe traumatic brain injury constitutes a clinical entity with complex underlying pathophysiology. Management of patients with severe traumatic brain injury is guided by Clinical Practice Guidelines and Consensus Statements (CPG and CS). The published CPG and CS vary in quality, comprehensiveness, and clinical applicability.

Intermediate surgical outcome in patients suffering poor-grade aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. A single center experience.

Background: It is known that patients suffering poor-grade aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) have a dismal prognosis. The importance of early intervention is well established in the pertinent literature. Our aim was to assess the functional outcome and overall survival of these patients undergoing surgical clipping.

Extreme lateral lumbar interbody fusion (XLIF) in the management of degenerative scoliosis: a retrospective case series.

Background: Surgical treatment of adult degenerative scoliosis (DS) always remains a challenge and often necessitates complex multilevel surgery via traditional open approaches. However, the severity of the procedure, in association with the fact that many of these patients are at an advanced age with several comorbidities, results in high rate of complications. Therefore, during the last decade, minimally invasive procedures have gained a place in the treatment of this pathology.

The value of the identification of predisposing factors for post-traumatic amnesia in management of mild traumatic brain injury.

Object: To identify the risk factors for post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) and to document the incidence of PTA after mild traumatic brain injuries.

Methods: This was a prospective study, affecting mild TBI (mTBI) (Glasgow Coma Scale 14-15) cases attending to the Emergency Department between January 2009 and April 2012 (40 months duration). Patients were divided into two groups (Group A: without PTA, and Group B: with PTA, and they were assessed according to the risk factors.