Background: Classification of traumatic brain injury (TBI) severity guides management and contributes to determination of prognosis. Common indicators of TBI severity include Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) ...

Researchers employed direct infusion/liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry in their exploration of the potential of ...

Age, location and severity of injury, mechanism of injury and medical comorbidities will affect the type of TBI sustained. In a recent University of Washington Emergency Medicine Department ...

Severe or untreated TBI can lead to disability or death. Healthcare providers classify the severity of a TBI as mild, ...

1,2 TBI is heterogeneous in terms of cause, pathology, severity, and prognosis ... area under the receiver operating characteristic curve Web-based calculator, score chart ...

TBI is a broad term that describes a vast array of injuries that happen to the brain. The damage can be focal (confined to one area of the brain) or diffuse (happens in more than one area of the brain ...

With severe TBI, it is hard to predict recovery because it depends on location of trauma, severity of the damage, length of time in coma, and many other factors. However, long-term effects of the ...

Methods: Charts of patients admitted from 1996 to 1999 with severe TBI at a large, urban mid-Atlantic teaching ... Data were collected regarding mechanism and area of injury, severity of injury, and ...