Corrêa BSRA, Maeda FL, Ghizoni E, Fernandes JA

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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a complex entity involving a group of organs disorders who start with a brain injury. It can be caused by many different etiologies, such as traffic accidents, fire gun shots, falls (more commonly seen in pediatric and elderly people), among many other.
Despite several improvements in traffic legislation, such as helmets obligation for motorcycles, seatbelts for all passenger and also advances in neuro critical care, traumatic brain injuries still cause a lot of victims. It accounts for approximately 40 % of all deaths from acute traumatic injury in the United States. Annually, 200,000 victims of TBI require medical attention. By this reason, it is an economic and social problem involving a large amount of money for prevention, assistance and rehabilitation.
TBI can be classified by its severity according to the Glasgow Coma Score. Other forms of classification TBI is according to its causative mechanisms (penetrating versus non penetrating) or extension (focal or diffuse).

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