Head injury, pathophysiology and management, second edition.

Edited by Peter L Reilly, Ross Bullock. Published by Hodder Arnold, London, 2005, £145.00 (hard cover), pp 501. ISBN 0-34080-724-5 Traumatic brain injury is one of the most difficult and challenging management problems facing clinicians. The last 20 years have seen major advances in the prevention and treatment of head injury, resulting in a substantial decrease in associated mortality. In the 1970s, 50% of patients with …