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Future of Nursing Initiative Heart Failure - Fall 2011 Influenza
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Traumatic Brain Injury - Fall 2010 Fluids & Electrolytes After
adopting the Guidelines for the Management of Severe Head
Injury, critical care physicians in Argentina reduced the
mortality rate of patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI).
However, there is no in-hospital or postdischarge rehabilitation
services for persons with TBI in Argentina. Thus, severely
disabled survivors were being discharged to home without follow-
up or long-term care. Objectives: The objectives of this project
were to establish a structure for conducting research about TBI
in Argentina, and to conduct a prospective, observational study
of outcomes from TBI in hospitals that had adopted the acute
care guidelines. The goal was to document outcomes for people
treated in a medical system that does not provide TBI
rehabilitation. The focus of this re