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Abstract

For the purposes of this assessment protocol, “Severe Acquired Cerebrolysis” (SAC) means brain damage associated with a pathological event of a non-congenital or perinatal or degenerative nature, such that it results in a coma condition with the worst Glasgow Coma Scale score (GCS) of the acute phase ≤ 8 and lasting more than 24 hours. This damage can be of vascular, traumatic, anoxic, infectious, toxic-metabolic, neoplastic origin and is capable of causing multiple and complex sensory-motor, cognitive and/or behavioral impairments that lead to severe disability.

This second revision of the minimum rehabilitation assessment protocol of the person with severe acquired cerebrolesion arises from the desire to update the version elaborated in 2007 that had seen the modification and the overcoming of the original protocol called "Minimum protocol for the rehabilitation assessment of persons with cranio-encephalic trauma” published in 1998; these tools have been developed and proposed by a working group of the Italian Society of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation medicine to create a cultural base solid for rehabilitation professionals, by providing them with a sort of “toolbox” from which to draw for the assessment of people with SAC in the different contexts of care along the therapeutic and rehabilitative path.

The protocol consists of three parts:

1. Minimum anamnestic information to be collected necessarily at the time of first contact with the person with SAC, regardless of the evaluation setting;

2. Clinical evaluation tools, usable in the different stages of the treatment path and in the different settings in which the interventions are carried out. For each area of intervention, the main potential problems that may require an evaluation or therapeutic intervention and related evaluation tools are indicated;

3. Global tools for multidimensional evaluation of the outcome.

Details

Title
Protocollo di minima GCA 2020
Author
Comitato
Section
Articolo Originale
Publication year
2020
Publication date
Dec 2020
Publisher
Springer Healthcare Italia SRL
ISSN
11284935
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Italian
ProQuest document ID
2524197142
Copyright
© 2020. This work is published under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/it/legalcode (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.