RT Book, Section A1 Ellis, Jason A. A1 Lee, Kiwon A1 Altschul, Dorothea A2 Farcy, David A. A2 Chiu, William C. A2 Flaxman, Alex A2 Marshall, John P. SR Print(0) ID 55813371 T1 Chapter 28. Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury T2 Critical Care Emergency Medicine YR 2012 FD 2012 PB The McGraw-Hill Companies PP New York, NY SN 978-0-07-162824-2 LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55813371 RD 2024/10/12 AB Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and traumatic spinal cord injury (TSI) represent pathologies that result from a diverse spectrum of primary insults to the central nervous system (CNS). Nearly 2 million cases of neurotrauma, including both TBI and TSI, occur annually in the United States making it an important public health issue.1–3 In addition to the long-term physical disabilities and the psychosocial impairments seen in neurotrauma survivors, the economic burden of TBI and TSI is significant. The cost of TBI in the United States is estimated to be somewhere between $40 and $200 billion.3–6 For TSI, it is estimated that the lifetime total cost directly attributable to spinal cord injury in a 25-year-old patient may exceed $3 million.2