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 2024/04/25
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