Daño cerebral sobrevenido: propuesta de definición, criterios diagnósticos y clasificación

• DOI: 10.33588/rn.5406.2011714
• Publication Date: 2019-02-15T06:54:00Z
• Authors: Fernando Castella...; Manuel Cid Gala; Pablo Duque San Juan; José Mª Ramírez M...; José Martín Zurdo...; AA.VV. en nombre ...
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; 3. Good health

Acquired brain injury is a heterogeneous clinical concept that goes beyond the limits of the classical medical view, which tends to define processes and diseases on the grounds of a single causation. Although in the medical literature it appears fundamentally associated to traumatic brain injury, there are many other causes and management is similar in all of them, during the post-acute and chronic phases, as regards the measures to be taken concerning rehabilitation and attention to dependence. Yet, despite being an important health issue, today we do not have a set of diagnostic criteria or a classification for this condition. This is a serious handicap when it comes to carrying out epidemiological studies, designing specific care programmes and comparing results among different programmes and centres. Accordingly, the Extremadura Acquired Brain Injury Health Care Plan working group has drawn up these proposed diagnostic criteria, definition and classification. The proposal is intended to be essentially practical, its main purpose being to allow correct identification of the cases that must be attended to and to optimise the use of neurorehabilitation and attention to dependence resources, thereby ensuring attention is provided on a fair basis.