Educating Families of Brain Injury Patients During Acute Rehabilitation: A Quality Improvement Project.

Lack of information is cited as a source of distress for caregivers of patients with brain injury during the recovery process. This is a quality improvement project with the purpose of educating family members of brain injury patients about acute inpatient rehabilitation and providing a reliable source of information through the Model Systems Knowledge Translation Center Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Factsheets. The study was conducted in the brain injury unit of an acute inpatient rehabilitation facility and a total of 32 family members participated in the study.

Speech recovery after single-dose zolpidem in two minimally conscious patients with severe traumatic brain injuries: a case report.

Background: In rare cases, zolpidem administration has been found to paradoxically improve cognition in patients with brain injury in disorders of consciousness.

Case Presentation: Two minimally conscious plus (MCS+) patients at baseline, a 24-year-old woman 8 weeks post-traumatic brain injury (TBI) and 23-year-old man 6 weeks post-TBI, demonstrated behavioral improvements after off-label, single-dose administration of 10 mg of zolpidem.

Discussion/conclusion: The patients demonstrated improved cognition on Coma Recovery Scale-Revised assessment after ingesting zolpidem.