brain damage?
my brother has been in the hospital who have congestive heart failure and a week ago, her heart stopped and had a lack of oxygen and they did a spinal tap to see how many brain cells lost. I do not know what they mean, but the results were 86, say 300 is pretty much brain dead. my question is what the numbers mean. is 86 bad? my family is still positive, but none of us really knows what this means and not those who ask. Also how well do people recover from a mild brain damage. hes my brother is a young man in his late 20's doctors say they can recover
There is no test to determine "the amount of brain cells are lost." It is clear to me there was a misunderstanding what the doctor shared with you. The lumbar puncture, which are used for a patient with brain injury is a measure of intracranial pressure and to determine if the patient needs a ventricular shunt (a measuring device in the house fed the lateral ventricles of the brain). 86 is certainly not even close to be potentially deadly. Recovery depends on what part of the brain is damaged and how. You said it was "mild", but due to hypoxia, which affects all parts of the brain equally. There is a reasonable possibility that it will recover, but not quite at the level I was before. Talk with the neurologist again. He / she has the obligation to answer all your questions, regardless of how "stupid" you think the questions are. You need accurate information for making future arrangements for his brother's care, if necessary, and what to expect from him when you leave the hospital. You are a customer of the physician, not the reverse.
EECP at Woodstock - Straight from the Heart (Part 2 of 2)
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Oxidative Stress and Cardiac Failure $42.43 Far from being a direct complication of primary damage to heart muscle, it is now recognised that the pathogenesis of heart failure may rely on a combination of neurohormonal, cellular and molecular factors. An overwhelming number of systems appear to be activated in heart failure and contribute in some way towards structural remodelling.Comprising a comprehensive evaluation of the experimental an... |