… Traumatic brain injury in elderly patients is a neglected global disease … of geriatric traumatic
brain injury, including epidemiology, pathology, and effects of comorbidities and pre-injury …

… the unique considerations of the geriatric patient with TBI and highlight what is currently
unknown about the best way to care for elderly patients with TBI. Epidemiology of Geriatric TBI …

… in the elderly have been … in elderly patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Falls to the
ground either from standing or from heights are the most common causes of TBI in the elderly, …

… Elderly traumatic brain injury patients have a worse mortality and functional outcome than
nonelderly patients who present with head injury … number of elderly trauma patients as the …

… The epidemiology of traumatic brain injury (TBI) is changing in several Western countries,
with an increasing proportion of elderly TBI patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). …

… The current research literature shows that the risk for traumatic brain injury (TBI) increases
… TBI in the elderly being unintentional falls Citation[3–9]. The number of patients with TBI over …

… Traumatic brain injury (TBI), particularly in the elderly patient population, is known to be the
… the impact of respiratory failure (RF) on mortality in elderly patients with isolated severe TBI. …

… There is a need to better understand how the ‘young’ elderly and the ‘old’ elderly patients
with TBI differ and to determine if their discharge needs are similar. Thus, the aim of this study …

… traumatic brain injury (TBI) negatively correlates with age, studies on geriatric TBI – ie TBI in
patients of 65 years of age or older – … in a group of 258 patients with head injury and found a …

… determinant of outcome in elderly patients with severe traumatic brain injury. However,
surgical treatment reduced mortality and improved outcome in the elderly patients in this study. …