1/🧵Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) isn’t “Mild” 🧠
Our daughter fell off a high diving board headfirst to cement years ago. Though she had 2 cracks through her foramen magnum, her GCS was 15 & CT had no bleeding.
“She’s OK,” they said.
Wrong answer 😔
#TrackTBI Data…
Our daughter fell off a high diving board headfirst to cement years ago. Though she had 2 cracks through her foramen magnum, her GCS was 15 & CT had no bleeding.
“She’s OK,” they said.
Wrong answer 😔
#TrackTBI Data…
2/ Mild TBI isn’t mild at all. Lives & entire families are uprooted.
Over half of these N=991 patients with GCS of 15 & negative head CT scan reported incomplete recovery at 6 months.
90% w incomplete recovery were unable to return to preinjury life.
bit.ly/3pxd4ze
Over half of these N=991 patients with GCS of 15 & negative head CT scan reported incomplete recovery at 6 months.
90% w incomplete recovery were unable to return to preinjury life.
bit.ly/3pxd4ze
3/ Medicine & Trauma are only now waking up to the realities of this “invisible” yet devastating injury.
I’d been trained in all modern #CriticalCare & you’d think I would know better.
But I didn’t.
bit.ly/3R0enCt
I’d been trained in all modern #CriticalCare & you’d think I would know better.
But I didn’t.
bit.ly/3R0enCt
4/fin
Our @NASEM_Health TBI Forum led by @donberwick is working to create a safetynet for millions.
We’re trying to pave a better way forward for pts w TBI.
Starting now, all head injury pts should receive follow-up to identify incomplete recovery.
bit.ly/3c9L8hJ
Our @NASEM_Health TBI Forum led by @donberwick is working to create a safetynet for millions.
We’re trying to pave a better way forward for pts w TBI.
Starting now, all head injury pts should receive follow-up to identify incomplete recovery.
bit.ly/3c9L8hJ
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