Injury to the Central Nervous System

Injury to the Central Nervous System

Introduction

The central nervous system (CNS) is the control center of the human organism. Nervous system failure occurs when organic diseases or injuries hit the brain and spinal cord. Diagnosis and treatment of diseases and injuries of the nervous system is the subject of a special branch of medicine - neurology (Young, 2002). The epidemiology of traumatic CNS injury has been difficult to define due to discrepancies in the data collection. Patients with minimal damage may not be registered or insufficiently documented. Paradoxically, the immediate deaths by traumatic brain injury ...