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- Title
Traumatic Brain Injury Incidence, Clinical Overview, and Policies in the US Military Health System Since 2000.
- Authors
Swanson, Thomas M.; Isaacson, Brad M.; Cyborski, Cherina M.; French, Louis M.; Tsao, Jack W.; Pasquina, Paul F.
- Abstract
Exposure to explosive armaments during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom contributed to approximately 14% of the 352612 traumatic brain injury (TBI) diagnoses in the US military between 2000 and 2016. The US Department of Defense issued guidelines in 2009 to (1) standardize TBI diagnostic criteria; (2) classify TBI according to mechanism and severity; (3) categorize TBI symptoms as somatic, psychological, or cognitive; and (4) systematize types of care given during the acute and rehabilitation stages of TBI treatment. Polytrauma and associated psychological and neurologic conditions may create barriers to optimal rehabilitation from TBI. Given the completion of recent combat operations and the transition of TBI patients into long-term care within the US Department of Veterans Affairs system, a review of the literature concerning TBI is timely. Long-term follow-up care for patients who have sustained TBI will remain a critical issue for the US military.
- Subjects
IRAQ; UNITED States; BRAIN injury treatment; BRAIN injury diagnosis; AMNESIA; BRAIN injuries; CONSCIOUSNESS; LONG-term health care; VETERANS; EVALUATION of medical care; MILITARY medicine; NEURORADIOLOGY; POLICY sciences; POST-traumatic stress disorder; REHABILITATION; MILITARY personnel; WAR; WOUNDS &; injuries; RETROSPECTIVE studies; GLASGOW Coma Scale
- Publication
Public Health Reports, 2017, Vol 132, Issue 2, p251
- ISSN
0033-3549
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0033354916687748