Abstract 1. The severity of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) must be based on a score of 15
on the Glasgow Coma Scale; a score of 13 or 14 is due to confusion and will be associated
with a longer period of posttraumatic amnesia (PTA). The primary neuropathology of TBI is ...

Disability in America presents a five-prong strategy for reducing the incidence and
prevalence of disability as well as its personal, social, and economic consequences.
Although the preferred goal is to avoid potentially disabling conditions, the authoring ...

✓ The majority of hospital admissions for head trauma are due to minor injuries; that is, no or
only transient loss of consciousness without major complications and not requiring
intracranial surgery. Despite the low mortality rate following minor head injury, there is ...

Injury has been the fourth leading cause of mortality in the United States for the past 50
years and is the foremost cause of death among persons aged 1–44.12 In 2001, 157,078
persons died of acute traumatic injury in the United States—a rate of 55 per 100,000 ...

Abstract Damage to different regions of the brain can cause a variety of neuropsychological
deficits, including specific disturbances of language, memory, perception and motor function.
A significant number of brain-damaged patients are unaware of their deficits, even when ...

Abstract Despite evolutionary changes in protective equipment, head injury remains
common in football. We investigated concussion in football and associated epidemiologic
issues such as 1) incidence of injury, 2) common signs and symptoms, and 3) patterns in ...

The decrease in mortality and improved outcome for patients with severe traumatic brain
injury over the past 25 years can be attributed to the approach of “squeezing oxygenated
blood through a swollen brain”. Quantification of cerebral perfusion by monitoring of ...

The 1991 National Health Interview Survey was analysed to describe the incidence of mild
and moderate brain injury in the United States. Data were collected from 46761 households
and weighted to reflect all non-institutionalized civilians. The report of one or more ...