Key result
Acute brain injury linked to distant non-neurologic organ dysfunction, highlighting the need for holistic care.
Why the study?
Acute brain injuries pose a major threat to global health and can lead to distant organ failure even without systemic disease or infection.
Acute brain injury requires a holistic therapeutic approach due to its potential to cause distant organ failure.
Encourages systemic monitoring in acute brain injury; leaves open whether holistic interventions improve outcomes.
Acute brain injuries pose a great threat to global health, having significant impact on mortality and disability. Patients with acute brain injury may develop distant organ failure, even if no systemic diseases or infection is present. The severity of non-neurologic organs' dysfunction depends on the extremity of the insult to the brain. In this comprehensive review we sought to describe the organ-related consequences of acute brain injuries. The clinician should always be aware of the interplay between central nervous system and non-neurological organs, that is constantly present. Cerebral injury is not only a brain disease, but also affects the body as whole, and thus requires holistic therapeutical approach.
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Rachfalska et al. (2020) conducted a review in Acute brain injury. Acute brain injury can cause distant non-neurologic organ dysfunction, highlighting the need for a holistic therapeutic approach that addresses the body as a whole.
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