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Over 37,000 North Carolina Brain Injury Patients a Year Require Emergency Room Care

The Newsobserver.com reports that 37,000 emergency room patients are treated for North Carolina brain injuries each year. The Brain Injury Association of North Carolina calls TBIs a ?silent epidemic,? with more people suffering from brain injuries than there are patients diagnosed with breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, and AIDS combined. In the state of North Carolina alone, there are 180,000 brain injury patients?equal to Fayetteville?s entire population.

Many people don?t really understand what a TBI is or how serious the injury can become in certain cases if medical attention isn?t immediately sought. Also, with car crashes and fall accidents as two of the most common causes of traumatic brain injuries, many victims sustained their injuries because another party was negligent. Please do not hesitate to contact our Charlotte, North Carolina brain injury law firm to explore your legal options.

March has been designated Brain Injury Awareness month, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued its latest report on TBI?s called "Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States: Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations, and Death.? Among its latest statistics:

? There are approximately 52,000 TBI deaths in the US every year.
? 1.7 million hospital visits are traumatic brain injury-related.
? 75% of brain injuries are considered mild TBIs.
? Older people, above the age of 65, kids, younger than 5, and teens, 15-19, are most at risk of suffering from a TBI.
? Adults, 75 and older, had the highest TBI death and hospitalization rates.
? The leading known causes of TBI?s are falls, motor vehicle crashes, getting struck by or striking an object, and assaults.

Sustaining a serious TBI can prove catastrophic and not to mention devastating for the victim and loved ones. The costs of living with one can be astronomical.

When you look at the most common causes of TBI?s, it is no surprise that many traumatic brain injuries could have been prevented. Contact our Charlotte, North Carolina personal injury law firm to discuss your TBI case.

CDC Study Examines Rising Incidence of TBI, Medpage Today, March 19, 2010

Brain injury alters her life, Newsobserver.com, March 23, 2010

Related Web Resources:
Brain Injury Association of America

Living with a TBI, Brain and Spinal Cord.org

Full post as published by North Carolina Injury Lawyer Blog on March 25, 2010 (boomark / email).