Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a common occurrence and leading cause of morbidity, mortality, disability, and socioeconomic losses. The injury is preventable, and disabling health situation with heterogeneous etiology, type, severity, and outcomes. It poses a major challenge for pre-hospital care and rehabilitation in the rapidly changing environments. In most patients with TBI, the appearance is obvious, although some patients present with an altered mental status and little or no physical evidence of trauma.
The annual global incidence rates of TBI range from 91 per 100,000 population to 546 per 100,000. A large number of cases are not treated at hospitals; the actual rate is possibly in excess of 600 per 100,000 cases. Mild traumatic brain injury Traumatic brain injury results due to the application of external physical force that disturbs brain function as demonstrated by apparent…
