… The purpose of this article is to encourage the classification of traumatic brain injury (TBI)
as the beginning of a chronic disease process, rather than an event or final outcome. Head …

… It is well established that mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) is underdiagnosed; however, in …
injury. More important, details regarding the specifics of injury are lost. TBI is a heterogeneous …

… Jr, et al; American College of Emergency Physicians; Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Clinical policy: neuroimaging and decisionmaking in adult mild traumatic brain injury …

Problem/Condition: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability in
the United States. Approximately 53,000 persons die from TBI-related injuries annually. …

… -D-aspartate, and calcium-channel blockers, have been investigated in an attempt to prevent
the secondary injury associated with traumatic brain injury, but none has proven effective. …

… with brain injury and disease. … ; injury signals reach the brain and initiate cytokine production
via vagal afferents and, in some cases, blood-borne mediators that cross the blood–brain …

… These diagnostic categories for TBI were used by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) in their TBI surveillance studies. If a person had more than one visit with a TBI …

… A concerted effort to tackle the global health problem posed by traumatic brain injury (TBI)
is long overdue. TBI is a public health challenge of vast, but insufficiently recognised, …

… Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC… may elect to ascertain cases of traumatic brain injury either from clinical records or from …

… Disease Control and Prevention. Dr Maas reported that he has received institutional grant
support from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and consultancy fees …