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Traumatic Brain Injury In The United States Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations, And Deaths
Through the Children’s Health Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-310), Congress charged the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with “determining the incidence and prevalence of traumatic brain injury in all age groups in the general population of the United States.” In response, CDC has produced a new report, Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States: Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths.
This report provides detailed information about traumatic brain injury (TBI)-related deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency department (ED) visits in the United States for the years 1995 through 2001. The data can be used to address a wide range of important questions, such as how many TBIs occur each year in the United States, who is affected, and how these TBIs occur. Highlights from the report include the following:
Each year in the United States: At least 1.4 million people sustain a TBI. Of these, about 50,000 die, 235,000 are hospitalized, and 1.1 million are treated and released from an ED.
Approximately 475,000 TBIs occur among children ages 0 to 14 years; ED visits account for more than 90% of the TBIs in this age group.
Falls are the leading cause of TBI; rates are highest for children ages 0 to 4 years and for adults age 75 years or older.
This report is intended as a reference for policy makers, service providers, educators, researchers, advocates, and others interested in knowing more about the impact of TBI in the United States.
There are treatments available for brain damage.
The effects of impairment or disability resulting from brain damage may be treated by a number of methods, including medication, psychotherapy, neuropsychological rehabilitation, surgery or physical implants such as deep brain stimulation.
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Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome
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Beare-Stevenson cutis gyrata syndrome is a genetic disorder characterized by skin abnormalities and the premature fusion of certain bones of the skull craniosynostosis), which prevents further growth of the skull and affects the shape of the head and face.
Pfeiffer syndrome
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Many of the characteristic facial features of Pfeiffer syndrome result from the premature fusion of the skull bones. The head is unable to grow normally, which leads to bulging and wide-set eyes, an underdeveloped upper jaw, and a beaked nose.
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