Citation

Dischinger P, Read K, Kerns T, Ho S, Kufera J, Burch C, Jawed N, Burgess A, Bents F. Annu. Proc. Assoc. Adv. Automot. Med. 2003; 47: 577-589.

Affiliation

Charles McC. Mathias National Study Center for Trauma and EMS, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12941252

PMCID

PMC3217580

Abstract

Approximately one-half of vehicle occupants with traumatic brain injury (TBI) have a mild TBI (admission Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score of 13-15 with transient loss of consciousness). However, despite the label of "mild", many of these injuries result in long-term consequences; frequently these sequelae go unrecognized, as the patients are lost to medical follow-up. The Crash Injury Research Engineering Network (CIREN) project affords us the opportunity to examine the crash circumstances, injury sources and outcomes of mild TBI cases in greater detail.