North Shore University Hospital has been using a blood test instead of radiation to help determine whether a patient has ...

Brain death determination sits at the fraught intersection of critical-care medicine, ethics, and organ-donation logistics. Missteps risk either prolonging mechanical support with no prospect of ...

The use of CT-based automation for traumatic brain injury may serve as a valuable tool for clinicians to predict disability outcomes in patients. Utilizing automated computed tomography (CT) scans to ...

AI model using head CT imaging predicts in-hospital mortality for patients with gunshot wounds to the head with high discriminative performance.

MINNEAPOLIS — A new study shows large increases in the use of computed tomography (CT) scans of the head in emergency departments across the United States from 2007 to 2022. The study, which was ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- According to the Centers for Disease Control, 50% of concussions go unreported. That's scary to think about because there are millions of traumatic brain injury (TBI) ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a disturbance of normal brain functions due to a head injury that everyone is at risk. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 138 people ...

The number of emergency department encounters that included a head CT more than doubled between 2007 and 2022, according to a study published Nov. 19 in Neurology. Researchers from the medical schools ...