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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON HEAD INJURIES AND THEIR COMPLICATIONS. 1
Author(s) -
ROGERS LAMBERT
Publication year - 1946
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1946.tb03605.x
Subject(s) - medicine , blunt , surgery , head injury , incidence (geometry) , head (geology) , head trauma , geomorphology , optics , geology , physics
Summary In the foregoing remarks may be found an indication of the way in which experience of head injuries in the war has modified practice. Chemotherapy and particularly the use of penicillin have enabled us to effect water‐tight dural closure in penetrating injuries, and although it is early to assess results, this would appear to be an advance which may conceivably lower the incidence of complications of penetrating injuries, whether produced by missiles or road accidents. The more widespread recognition of brain swelling as a reaction of the brain to blunt head injury and treatment designed to ensure provision for this swelling should also reduce the incidence of complications following this type of injury. Chemotherapy has enabled us to take a more conservative attitude towards cerebrospinal rhinorrhcea.