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10 Things you Need to Know about TBI by Knight
1. Next Level Neuro Resus
26 June 2015
WilliamA Knight IV, MD, FACEP
University of Cincinnati
Traumatic Brain Injury – 10Things you Need to Know
William.Knight@uc.edu
@waknight4
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7. Epidemiology:TBI in the US
50,000
Deaths
100,000
Hospitalizations
1,111,000
Emergency DepartmentVisits
?? Receiving Other Medical Care or No Care
* Average annual numbers, 1995-2001
2004 CDC Report: TBI in the United States: ED Visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths
1.5 – 2.0 million
TBIs occur each year.*
40. DECRA
ProTECT
Disease definition
Can what we see contributing to poor or good
outcome be as wrong as these trials suggest or
do we need to define the disease and patients
better?
Multicenter RCTs can be successfully performed
41. Adeoye O & Shutter L. Neurotrauma & Critical Care of
the Brain. JalloJ, ed. Thieme; 2009.
CPP?
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44. Target normal physiologic goals
Research
We know how to study
▪ Do we know what to study?
Early aggressive care is the future
24 hours of resuscitation prior to prognosis
45. “It’s not an exceptional case. We
just don’t know how many
exceptions to the rule there are.
So.
I don’t believe in the rule anymore.”
- Joseph Giacino, PhD
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