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Causes of Injury

Several organizations regularly release information on the causes of brain injury:

From the Brain Injury Association of America:

The leading causes of TBI are:

  • Falls (28%);

  • Motor vehicle-traffic crashes (20%); and

  • Assaults (11%).1

Blasts are a leading cause of TBI for active duty military personnel in war zones.2

1 Langlois JA, Rutland-Brown W, Thomas KE. Traumatic brain injury in the United States: emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths. Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; 2004.

2 Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC). [unpublished]. Washington (DC): U.S. Department of Defense; 2005.

For more facts, statistics and symptoms from the Brain Injury Association of America:  Causes of Brain Injury

 

From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

The leading causes of TBI are

  • Falls

  • Motor vehicle-traffic

  • Assaults (Langlois et al. 2004)

Firearm use is the leading cause of death related to TBI (CDC 1999b).

Firearms cause about 10% of all TBIs, but they account for 44% of TBI-related deaths (CDC 1999b).

Nine out of 10 people with a firearm-related TBI die (CDC 1999b).

Nearly two-thirds of firearm-related TBIs are classified as suicidal in intent (CDC 1999b).

TBI: General Fact Sheet (pdf document)

For in-depth information, refer to the recent TBI booklet: Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States: Emergency Department Visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths - Prepared by Division of Injury and Disability Outcomes and Programs, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and   Department of Health and Human Services www.cdc.gov/injury October 2004

 

Other sources for Cause Information:

MedLine - Health news of all sorts from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/  Hint: search for "tbi" and find a wealth of information.

From the Ohio Trauma Registry (OTR), reported to the Ohio Department of Public Safety:

  • The top 15 causes for trauma (reported to the OTR 1999 - 2002) are:

    Fall (NEC/NOS), Fall Same Level, MVC NOS-driver, Fall on Stair/Step, Injury-NOS, Loss Control MVC-driver, Fall-1 Level to Other, MVC NOS-passenger, Pedestrian Struck, Fall from Ladder, Fall from Other,  Struck by Object/Person, Unarmed Fight or Brawl, MVC w/Object-driver, Assult-Cutting Instrument

  • 86% were injuries suffered as a result of blunt force mechanisms, 8% penetrating injuries, 3% burns, 3% unknown.

* Development of this section of our website was made possible through a grant from the Ohio Department of Public Safety / EMS Division.

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