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The role of the Trigeminocardiac Reflex in a Traumatic Brain Injury Death: Case Report

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Radanović Dražen¹^ORCID,Mirčić Uroš²^ORCID,Radnić Bojana³^ORCID,Elboursh Dušan⁴^ORCID,Bogosavljević Đurđina⁵^ORCID,Stanisavljević Jovana⁶^ORCID,Antonijević Jovana⁶^ORCID,Knežević Saša⁷^ORCID,Čukić Bojan²^ORCID,Pajić Srbislav⁸^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Clinic of Neurosurgery, University Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade Republic of Serbia

2. Department of Radiology, University Clinical Center of Serbia, Republic of Serbia

3. Institute of Forensic Medicine “Milovan Milovanović”, University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine

4. Emergency Center,University Clinical Center of Serbia, Republic of Serbia

5. bogosavljevicdjurdjina@gmail.com

6. Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, Center for Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, University Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

7. Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation on Clinic for Neurosurgery, Center for Anesthesiology and Resuscitation, University Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

8. Department of Neurotraumatology, University Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia

Abstract

Abstract The trigeminocardiac reflex (TCR) is defined as sudden onset of parasympathetic dysrhythmias including hemodynamic irregularities, apnea, and gastric hypermotility during stimulation of sensory branches of the trigeminal nerve. Back in 1999 when TCR was first described as such, a clinical discussion on the establishment of terminology is ongoing. We present a case of a 31-year-old male patient who was admitted to the Emergency Department due to traumatic brain injury who died with clinical manifestations of TCR. TCR can be a red flag for neurosurgeons when treating patients with traumatic brain injury.

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