Background and Objective : The tissue has a difJerent requirement for glucose. The brain has the greatest need for glucose. The brain is very susceptible to ischemia suggests that the brain has a high metabolic rate. Mechanism of ischemic injury is the biochemical changes and physiological changes that occur due to circulatory disturbances. Such changes as: (1) The loss of high energy phosphate…
Lactate has been know as one of the prognostic factors determining the outocome of the patient with a head injuries and its relation wiith the cerebral parenchymal damage that is seen on the CT-Scan. Conducting a cross sectional study, we examined the arterial lactate levels of 30 head-injured patients in January-May 2008 who, after hawing a CT-Scan admitted to the emergency room at Hasan Sadik…