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Heads Up: Brain Injury in Your Practice Tool Kit
At least 1.5 million people sustain traumatic brain injuries in this
country every year. Of those, approximately 1.1 million, or 75 percent,
sustain a mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). Yet, many are not
hospitalized or receive no medical care at all. An unknown proportion
of those who are not hospitalized may experience long-term problems such
as persistent headache, pain, fatigue, vision or hearing problems,
memory problems, confusion, sleep disturbances, or mood changes.
The CDC, working with a number of partners, has developed a new physician
tool kit to improve clinical diagnosis and management of MTBI.
Physicians can play a key role in helping to reduce the occurrence of
MTBI by educating patients and the community about risks and
injury prevention.
Heads Up: Brain Injury in Your Practice, is now available free of charge.
The kit contains practical, easy-to-use clinical information, patient
information in English and Spanish, scientific literature, and a CD-ROM.
To order a free copy, complete the
publications
order form.
CDC's
Injury Center invites your comments about the Heads Up: Brain Injury
in Your Practice Tool Kit. We are especially interested in
knowing the elements you found most useful and your recommendations
for ways to improve the tool kit. To provide comments, please
use our contact form
or e-mail us at OHCInfo@cdc.gov.
Information for Patients
Information for Physicians
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