• Emergency Department, the Fourth People's Hospital of Zigong, Zigong, Sichuan 643000, P. R. China;
CAOLing-hong, Email: 591765270@qq.com
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Objective To study the effect of hyperbaric oxygen combined with nimodipine in the treatment of cerebral dysfunction resulted from traumatic brain injury. Method We retrospectively collected and analyzed the data of 124 patients with cerebral dysfunction induced by traumatic brain injury, admitted to the Neurosurgery Department during February 2011 to February 2014. All the patients were divided into the traditional treatment group (n=45), the traditional treatment with hyperbaric oxygen group (HBO group, n=40) and the traditional treatment with nimodipine and hyperbaric oxygen group (integrated group, n=39). The differences among the three groups in neurological injury severity evaluated by National Institute of Health Stroke Scale and the cerebral blood flow were recorded and analyzed at three time points (before the treatment, 2 and 4 weeks after treatment). Results There was no significant difference in neurological injury severity and cerebral blood flow among these three groups before treatment (P>0.05). Evaluated at 2 and 4 weeks after treatments, the neurological injury severity of HBO group and integrated group were significantly less than the traditional treatment group (P<0.05); the neurological severity score of integrated group was significantly lower than the HBO group (P<0.05); the cerebral blood flow of HBO group and integrated group were significantly higher than the traditional treatment group (P<0.05); and the cerebral blood flow of integrated group was significantly higher than the HBO group (P<0.05). Conclusions The combination therapy of hyperbaric oxygen combined with nimodipine is effective in the treatment of cerebral dysfunction induced by traumatic brain injury, because of its attenuation of neurological injury severity and increase of cerebral blood flow.

Citation: LUOChang-bin, CAOLing-hong, YANGCheng-hao. Effect of Hyperbaric Oxygen Combined with Nimodipine in the Treatment of Cerebral Dysfunction Induced by Traumatic Brain Injury. West China Medical Journal, 2015, 30(6): 1015-1018. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.20150292 Copy

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