BACKGROUND Data limited to emergency department and inpatient visits undoubtedly underestimate the medical charges associated with traumatic brain injury. The objective of this study was to estimate the direct medical charges of pediatric traumatic brain injuries across all clinical settings in one large, pediatric hospital in the United States. METHODS Traumatic brain injuries sustained by c...

INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF VITAMIN D IN PREVENTING PROGRESSION TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES RELYING ON PROCESS TAUPATHY AND NEUROINFLAMMATION: A REVIEW STUDY

STUDY OBJECTIVE Computed tomography (CT) is frequently used in evaluating children with blunt head trauma. Routine use of CT, however, has disadvantages. Therefore, we sought to derive a decision rule for identifying children at low risk for traumatic brain injuries. METHODS We enrolled children with blunt head trauma at a pediatric trauma center in an observational cohort study between July ...

Traumatic brain injuries often lead to severe disability or death. These injuries most often affect younger, more active people and are likely to have enduring physical, emotional, and financial costs. In order to determine the incidence, etiology and severity of traumatic brain injuries in Alaska, the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services has conducted a three-year study of the demog...

Despite evidence that more than 80% of female victims of intimate partner violence, seen for medical treatment of violence-related injuries, have sustained facial injuries, traumatic brain injury is often overlooked as a consequence of those injuries. This article reviews the scant literature available and examines research on equivalent injuries sustained by athletes. Practical domains of symp...

BACKGROUND An important medical concern of the Iraq war is the potential long-term effect of mild traumatic brain injury, or concussion, particularly from blast explosions. However, the epidemiology of combat-related mild traumatic brain injury is poorly understood. METHODS We surveyed 2525 U.S. Army infantry soldiers 3 to 4 months after their return from a year-long deployment to Iraq. Valid...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children. After TBI, the vulnerable to additional injuries (secondary injuries) because disrupts normal autoregulatory defense mechanisms. These secondary play crucial role patient prognosis. Posttraumatic seizures are an important leading further damage injured brain. Continuous monitoring by electroencephalography (EE...

OBJECTIVES The goals were to describe trends in pediatric traumatic brain injury hospitalizations in the United States and to provide national benchmarks for state and regional comparisons. METHODS Analysis of existing data (1991-2005) from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, the largest longitudinal, all-payer, inpatient care database in the United States, was performed. Children 0 to 19 years ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of missed acute care traumatic brain injury diagnoses in patients with traumatic spinal cord injury, and to examine risk factors for missed traumatic brain injury diagnosis. DESIGN Prospective magnetic resonance imaging and neuro-psychological assessment plus retrospective medical record review, including computed tomography. SUBJECTS Ninety-two adults w...

Background: Every year, approximately 1.25 million people are killed as a result of traffic accidents. Between 20 million and 50 million other people are exposed to non-fatal injuries and many become disabled. The study aims to assess the contributing factors of traumatic head injuries and its health outcomes in Baghdad city. Methodology: It was conducted descriptive study to determine the con...