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Jack E. Wilberger
Researcher at Allegheny General Hospital
Publications - 37
Citations - 7612
Jack E. Wilberger is an academic researcher from Allegheny General Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Glasgow Coma Scale & Traumatic brain injury. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 37 publications receiving 7287 citations. Previous affiliations of Jack E. Wilberger include Virginia Commonwealth University & Temple University.
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International Standards for Neurological and Functional Classification of Spinal Cord Injury
Frederick Maynard,Michael B. Bracken,Graham H. Creasey,John F. Ditunno,William H. Donovan,Thomas B. Ducker,Susan L. Garber,Ralph J. Marino,Samuel L. Stover,Charles H. Tator,Robert L. Waters,Jack E. Wilberger,Wise Young +12 more
TL;DR: International Standards for Neurological and Functional Classification of Spinal Cord Injury are published and will be used for clinical practice.
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A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Methylprednisolone or Naloxone in the Treatment of Acute Spinal-Cord Injury: Results of the Second National Acute Spinal Cord Injury Study
Michael B. Bracken,Mary Jo Shepard,William F. Collins,Theodore R. Holford,Wise Young,David S. Baskin,Howard M. Eisenberg,Eugene S. Flamm,Linda Leo-Summers,Joseph C. Maroon,Lawrence F. Marshall,Phanor L. Perot,Joseph M. Piepmeier,Volker K.H. Sonntag,Franklin C. Wagner,Jack E. Wilberger,H. R. Winn +16 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that in patients with acute spinal-cord injury, treatment with methylprednisolone in the dose used in this study improves neurologic recovery when the medication is given in the first eight hours.
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Clinical trials in head injury
Raj K. Narayan,Mary Ellen Michel,Beth Ansell,Alex Baethmann,Anat Biegon,Michael B. Bracken,M. Ross Bullock,Sung C. Choi,Guy L. Clifton,Charles F. Contant,William M. Coplin,W. Dalton Dietrich,Jamshid Ghajar,Sean M. Grady,Robert G. Grossman,Edward D. Hall,William Heetderks,David A. Hovda,Jack Jallo,Russell L. Katz,Nachshon Knoller,Patrick M. Kochanek,Andrew I R Maas,Jeannine Majde,Donald W. Marion,A Marmarou,Lawrence F. Marshall,Tracy K. McIntosh,Emmy Miller,Noel Mohberg,J. Paul Muizelaar,Lawrence H. Pitts,Peter Quinn,Gad Riesenfeld,Claudia S. Robertson,Kenneth I. Strauss,Graham M. Teasdale,Nancy Temkin,Ronald F. Tuma,Charles E. Wade,Michael D. Walker,Michael Weinrich,John Whyte,Jack E. Wilberger,A. Byron Young,Lorraine Yurkewicz +45 more
TL;DR: The pathomechanisms of traumatic brain damage, based upon their clinical importance, are discussed and a uniform strategic approach for evaluation of potentially interesting new compounds in clinical trials, to ameliorate outcome in patients with severe head injury, is proposed.
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A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Methylprednisolone or Naloxone in the Treatment of Acute Spinal-Cord Injury
Mark K. Lyons,Michael D. Partington,Fredric B. Meyer,Gary M. Yarkony,Elliot J. Roth,Moris Senegor,Henry G. Stifel,Margaret R. Brown,Michael B. Bracken,Mary Jo Shepard,William F. Collins,Theodore R. Holford,Wise Young,Joseph M. Piepmeier,Linda Leo-Summers,David S. Baskin,Howard M. Eisenberg,Eugene S. Flamm,Lawrence F. Marshall,Joseph C. Maroon,Jack E. Wilberger,Phanor L. Perot,Volker K.H. Sonntag,Franklin C. Wagner,H. Richard Winn +24 more
TL;DR: Studies in animals indicate that methylprednisolone and naloxone are both potentially beneficial in acute spinal-cord injury, but whether any treatment is clinically effective remains uncertain.
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Surgical Management of Acute Subdural Hematomas
M. Ross Bullock,Randall M. Chesnut,Jamshid Ghajar,Jamshid Ghajar,David A. Gordon,Roger Härtl,David W. Newell,Franco Servadei,Beverly C. Walters,Jack E. Wilberger +9 more
TL;DR: If surgical evacuation of an acute SDH in a comatose patient (GCS < 9) is indicated, it should be performed using a craniotomy with or without bone flap removal and duraplasty.