Every year, billions of dollars are spent all around the world to help aid in medical research. This medical research is vital to the development of new technologies and treatments that can then be used to help improve the lives of those who suffer from diseases or disorders, or perhaps even injury. One type of injury that has been especially detrimental not only to doctors but the patients and their parents are traumatic brain injuries, or TBI, in infants and children. Today, doctors have new treatments available to help limit the damage done after a severe TBI.
Pediatric TBI Statistics
No Emergency Department doctor wants to face a traumatic brain injury. Equally as daunting are pediatric injuries. However, throughout the US every year, nearly 600,000 children arrive at the ED with TBI. What’s worse than that is that severe TBI in young children and even infants result in nearly 7,000 deaths annually.
Organizations Involved in New Treatment Guidelines
It has taken years for the results of nearly 50 medical studies on the effects of severe TBI in pediatric patients to finally be compiled into an in-depth medical report detailing new treatments that can help to mitigate the long-term effects of severe brain injury. There have been numerous universities, children’s hospitals, societies and journals involved in this process:
- Stanford University School of Medicine
- Oregon Health & Science University
- Boston Children’s Hospital
- Seattle Children’s Hospital
- Duke University
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Utah
- University of British Columbia
- Children’s National Medical Center
Countless other medical professionals and researchers were also involved in creating these new treatment guidelines for pediatric TBI.
Newly Published Pediatric TBI Treatment Guidelines
These new guidelines have been published in the Journal of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine which is maintained by the Society of Critical Care Medicine. Now, with treatments utilizing the latest in medical technology and knowledge, pediatric patients can have more hope for a future will fewer side effects of their brain injury.
If your child has suffered a severe TBI, not only is it important that their doctors have the latest in treatment guidelines, but also that they receive all the medical treatment they need, any aftercare such as physical or speech therapy, as well as any helpful services or treatments going forward. Martin Gasparian, a personal injury lawyer at the Maison Law Firm servicing Visalia, Merced, Bakersfield, and Fresno will work hard to make sure they have that support, and what’s more, that you as their parents have the support you need as well.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190301192651.htm
