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Prognostic predictors of outcome after traumatic brain injury

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TBI prognosis: post-traumatic amnesia as a recovery clock A left-to-right clinical flowchart: injury, confused and amnesic interval, measured PTA duration, then functional outcome risk. TBI initial injury PTA interval confusion + new memory not yet continuous measure as minutes, days, weeks Short PTA lower risk signal Long PTA higher disability risk Exam move: do not stop at the CT snapshot; time the recovery clock.
TBI prognosis: why PTA duration carries weight
TBI prognosis discriminator table A four-row table separating PTA duration from other possible but less decisive cues in TBI prognosis questions. Which cue carries prognosis? Cue Exam interpretation Long PTA strong recovery-clock signal for poorer outcome Similar CT does not erase prolonged confusion/amnesia risk Low GCS early severity marker; place beside PTA Family dementia not the acute injury-prognosis cue
TBI prognosis discriminators
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PTA predicts Tomorrow's Ability.

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