Abstract
The past 30 years has seen, in most developed countries, a steady increase in the proportion of the population who can expect to suffer head injury. At the same time, improvements in techniques of resuscitation and in the management and effective treatment of some of the complications of head injury have salvaged a progressively larger number of the more severely brain-damaged who would previously have had no chance of surviving their injury.
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Roberts, A.H. (1979). Introduction. In: Severe Accidental Head Injury. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04787-1_1
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