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.
To know more about mild Traimatic Brain Injury (TBI) & Concussions, moderate and severe TBI, facts and sheets, and reports about Brain Traumatic Injuries, check the below lists.
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.
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.
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 Neuroinflammation18, 277 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12974-021-02323-8
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 . 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.
Critically Appraised Topics & Clinical Overviews
Critically Appraised Topical Information and Clinical Overviews can be found here: