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This Libguide is to provide you with clinical reliable resources on various health topics to communicate and promote awareness as part of Health Awareness Day/Week/Month across the year.
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Facts & Figures
Incidence and Prevalence of Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of death and disability among children and young adults in the United States. Each year an estimated 1.5 million Americans sustain a TBI. As a consequence of these injuries:
  • 230,000 people are hospitalized and survive.
  • 50,000 people die.
  • 80,000 to 90,000 people experience the onset of long-term disability.
Reference
TBI Among Service Members and Veterans
More than 430,000 U.S. service members were diagnosed with a TBI from 2000 to 2020.
TBI Data
From Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
GBD Compare 

Brain in Anatomage
What is Anatomage Table?
Check 'A Trip Inside the Human Body Using Anatomage' under Connective Issue Newsletter: December 2021 issue and Anatomage Libguide.

Neurosensory Disorders in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

The Invisible Brain Injury

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

New Therapeutics for Traumatic Brain Injury

Concussion

The Concussion Crisis in Sport

Sociocultural Examinations of Sports Concussions

I'll Carry the Fork!

Also check the following Books present in Wegner Health Sciences Library.

Journal Articles
A sample of articles about Brain Truamatic Injuries are listed below 
Pubmed
Hawryluk GWJ, Rubiano AM, Totten AM, O'Reilly C, Ullman JS, Bratton SL, Chesnut R, Harris OA, Kissoon N, Shutter L, Tasker RC, Vavilala MS, Wilberger J, Wright DW, Lumba-Brown A, Ghajar J. Guidelines for the Management of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: 2020 Update of the Decompressive Craniectomy Recommendations. Neurosurgery. 2020 Sep 1;87(3):427-434. doi: 10.1093/neuros/nyaa278. PMID: 32761068; PMCID: PMC7426189.
Frantseva MV, Kokarovtseva L, Naus CG, Carlen PL, MacFabe D, Perez Velazquez JL. Specific gap junctions enhance the neuronal vulnerability to brain traumatic injury. J Neurosci. 2002 Feb 1;22(3):644-53. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.22-03-00644.2002. PMID: 11826094; PMCID: PMC6758478.

Mojallal F, Nikooieh M, Hajimaghsoudi M, Baqherabadi M, Jafari M, Esmaeili A, Karimi NM, Zarepur E. The effect of intravenous tranexamic acid on preventing the progress of cerebral hemorrhage in patients with brain traumatic injuries compared to placebo: A randomized clinical trial. Med J Islam Repub Iran. 2020 Aug 27;34:107. doi: 10.34171/mjiri.34.107. PMID: 33315982; PMCID: PMC7722959.
CDC
Journal Articles in CDC (select Journal Articles as shown in the screen shot below).

                                                                                           

JOVE
Yang, Z., Lin, F., Weissman, A. S., Jaalouk, E., Xue, Q. s., Wang, K. K. W. A Repetitive Concussive Head Injury Model in Mice. <em>J. Vis. Exp.</em> (116), e54530, doi:10.3791/54530 (2016).

 

Journals
Check the following Journals present in Wegner Health Sciences Library.

Two of  the seven  are indexed in Journal Citation Report, they are JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA and PROGRESS IN BRAIN RESEARCH.

Images
Videos
Infographics
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COVID-19 & TBI
These are some reliable resources that discuss the topic of COVID-19 and Traumatic Brain Injuries combined. Check out the below.
Lester A, Leach P, Zaben M. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Traumatic Brain Injury Management: Lessons Learned Over the First Year. World Neurosurg. 2021 Dec;156:28-32. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.09.030. Epub 2021 Sep 13. PMID: 34530146; PMCID: PMC8435471.
Savarraj, J., Park, E.S., Colpo, G.D. et al. Brain injury, endothelial injury and inflammatory markers are elevated and express sex-specific alterations after COVID-19. J Neuroinflammation 18, 277 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12974-021-02323-8
Preprint : Brain Injury in COVID-19 is Associated with Autoinflammation and Autoimmunity
Lester A, Leach P, Zaben M. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Traumatic Brain Injury Management: Lessons Learned Over the First Year. World Neurosurg. 2021 Dec;156:28-32. doi: 10.1016/j.wneu.2021.09.030. Epub 2021 Sep 13. PMID: 34530146; PMCID: PMC8435471.
Changing YOUR Practice
In an attempt to avoid unnecessary medical and laboratory tests and procedures, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has created Choosing Wisely Open Access. It provides a list of evidence-based and updated recommendations from different specialty society partners.
For Brain Trauma-related recommendations in Choosing Wisely is here Open Access.
Critically Appraised Topics & Clinical Overviews
Critically Appraised Topical Information and Clinical Overviews can be found here:
Evidence-based Updates & News
To receive clinically significant, reliable, and secondary evidence updates in your chosen specialty/ies, register in: 
Hit Parade
Find out more about the most popular topics in research here
Continuing Medical Education Credits
Some databases that make you earn Continuing Medical Education(CME) Credits are:
Patient Education
Some patient education handouts are below:
Fundraising
To know how to help around fundraising for Traumatic Brain Injuries, please heck the below.
More
 
  • If you want to look up Open Educational Resources in Google and YouTube, please follow the steps in the video below.

 

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