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A Head Injury Animal Model: Physiological Studies of Mechanical Brain Injury in the Cat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

R. L. Hayes ,
C. M. Pechura  and
D. P. Becker
R. L. Hayes
Affiliation:
From the Division of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Virginia, Box 508, Richmond VA 23298, USA.
C. M. Pechura
Affiliation:
From the Division of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Virginia, Box 508, Richmond VA 23298, USA.
D. P. Becker
Affiliation:
From the Division of Neurosurgery, Medical College of Virginia, Box 508, Richmond VA 23298, USA.
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Functional and structural disturbances of the brain produced by sudden impact to the skull represent a fundamental problem in neurosurgical treatment of head trauma. A proper experimental approach to brain trauma requires the development of an adequate animal model useful in defining both the biomechanical and physiological variables relevant to mechanical injury to the human central nervous system (CNS). The development of appropriate animal models has proved essential to progress in other clinically related research and is a prerequisite for the development of rational modes of diagnosis and treatment of head injury.

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Part I: Research-Education-Organization
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 1 , supplement S1: Disaster Resuscitology , 1985 , pp. 6 - 10
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Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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