2018 AANS Annual Scientific Meeting-Outcome Predictions in Mild TBI

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Video Summary

In this video, Professor Oman from Finland talks about mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and its outcomes. She mentions that 80% of head injuries are mild and the number of publications on MTBI has increased in recent years. She discusses the predictors of outcome, including pre-trauma factors like gender, age, and mental health, peritrauma factors like loss of consciousness and brain lesions, and post-trauma factors like prolonged recovery and symptoms such as depression and pain. She highlights the complexity and heterogeneity of the MTBI literature and the lack of a prognostic model for predicting outcomes. The video concludes with a discussion on the long-term sequelae of MTBI and potential correlations with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).

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Juha Ohman, MD, Prof. (Finland)

Keywords

mild traumatic brain injury

MTBI

outcomes

predictors of outcome

prognostic model