NEW: BTF Guidelines in Practice Using a Case Study
Through the use of a case study this lecture will discuss the treatment guidelines for severe traumatic brain injury. The lecture will also comment on a trauma center’s compliance with the treatment guidelines for TBI and discuss how a trauma center can strategize to increase compliance through measurement of compliance.
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The Silent Epidemic: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury "Part 1: Identification and Diagnosis"
This activity was not created or produced by The Brain Trauma Foundation. The Brain Trauma Foundation is hosting this activity on our learning portal as well as giving out credit for completing the activity.
“The Silent Epidemic: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury "Part 1: Identification and Diagnosis" video is the winner of 5 Bronze Telly Awards. The Telly Awards honor the very best local, regional and cable television commercials and programs, as well as the finest video and film productions, and works created for the Web. Two awards are in the category of Online Video Education, and one of each were acquired in the categories of Online Video Documentary, Film and Video Documentary, and Film and Video Health & Wellness.”
This one hour Telly award winning video documentary presentation, featuring renowned Brain Injury experts, provides education to Medical Professionals to improve their awareness and recognition of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, how it is defined, its prevalence, and pathophysiology. Also explored are the potential personal and societal cycles of failure associated with undiagnosed MTBI. Proper Diagnosis involves understanding signs and symptoms, establishing a history of head injury, and knowing which tools are most useful in establishing the diagnosis. Chapter topics include “Epidemiology”, “Definitions”, “Causes, Incidence, and Populations”, “Effects of TBI: Biomechanics and Pathophysiology”, “The Personal and Societal Cost of TBI”, “Diagnosis: Signs and Symptoms”, “Taking a History and Screening for Brain Injury”, and “Neuroimaging and Neuropsychological Evaluations”
“This video production is supported in part by Grant #H21MC06750 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Maternal Child and Health Bureau (MCHB), and New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department (NM ALTSD). The views expressed in the interviews and commentary presented in this video are solely those of the individuals providing them and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of other presenters, NM ALTSD, HRSA, Vista Media Productions, or any of their affiliates or employees."
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Psychopharmacologic Treatment of Traumatic Brain Injury
Presented by Dr. Jonathan Silver this presentation aims to discuss the different types of psychiatric diagnoses related to TBI, neuropsychiatric sequelae and the pharmacological therapy used to treat specific TBI related psychiatric disorders. Risks, benefits, drug interactions and side effects will also be discussed.
"The Brain Trauma Foundation is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians."
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Nutrition Support in Patients with Acute Traumatic Brain Injury
This lecture looks at improving nutrition support for patients with acute TBI. Nutrition is a significant predictor of TBI mortality; together with prevention of arterial hypotension, hypoxia and intracranial hypertension it is one of the few therapeutic interventions that can directly affect TBI outcome.
Presenter Dr. Hatton's primary research focus area is critical care therapeutics and nutrition, specifically applied to the neurotrauma population. Since 1991 she has been a co-investigator in Phase II and Phase III clinical trials of drugs under investigation for treatment of traumatic brain injury. She has been a co-investigator of the clinical project in an NIH-funded, five-year program project grant evaluating mechanisms of brain injury and the systemic metabolic response. In 2005, Dr. Hatton joined Dr. Ed Hall at the Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center as a collaborator in translational pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic investigations in traumatic brain injury.
DISCLOSURES
As a provider accredited by Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, it is the policy of the Brain Trauma Foundation to require the disclosure of any financial interest or any other relationship the planners, managers, or faculty members and their spouse/partner have with the manufacturer(s) of any commercial product(s) discussed in an educational presentation. Faculty, planners, and managers reported the following:
Presenter: Dr. Jimmi Hatton, Pharm.D., FCCM, FCCP,Professor, Pharmacy and Neurosurgery & Chair, Pharmacy Practice and Science. Dr. Hatton has no disclosures to report.
Planner: Meredith P. Klein, MS, CHES, Director of Education, Brain Trauma Foundation. Meredith Klein has no disclosures to report.
Planner: Jamshid Ghajar, MD, PhD, FACS, President, Brain Trauma Foundation. Dr. Ghajar has no disclosures to report.
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