Traumatic Brain Injury Assessment Gets an Overhaul

Traumatic Brain Injury Assessment Gets an Overhaul

(MedPage Today) -- A newly proposed framework expands acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) assessment beyond the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). The framework has four components known as clinical, biomarker, imaging, and modifier (CBI-M) pillars, reported...

Evaluation of Traumatic Brain Injuries Gets Its First Overhaul in 50 Years

(KQED) – For the first time in over 50 years, emergency room doctors will have a new framework to assess people with head injuries from car or bike crashes, falls and assaults. Existing assessment protocols for traumatic brain injury rely on broad, vague measures that filter patients into three categories based on their symptoms: mild, moderate and severe. Doctors hope the new classification system, published Tuesday in The Lancet Neurology, wil…

Report Warns Of Hidden Toll Of Brain Injury Costs The Economy £43 Billion A Year

Share Post Share Email Specialist rehabilitation investment could reduce annual acute, longer term and social care costs facing the NHS and social services. This is according to a new report, titled Right to Rehab, commissioned by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Acquired Brain Injury and charity UKABIF (the UK Acquired Brain Injury Forum). The Right to Rehab report, considers the economic impact of …