PMID: 20112788Feb 2, 2010Paper

Current clinical trends in brain trauma--Japan Neurotrauma Databank

Brain and nerve = Shinkei kenkyū no shinpo
Takeki Ogawa, Japan Neurotrauma Databank Committee

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury is one of the subjects that always arouse intense attention from emergency medicine. In the latter half of the 1960s, death by traffic accidents had drastically increased in Japan and, this period was called "the age of traffic war". Traumatic brain injury was considered to be one of the major causes of traffic death, and the need for neurosurgeons was widely recognized. It should be kept in mind that such a social condition acted as a trigger for the foundation of the Japan Society of Neurotraumatology (JSNT) in 1978. The 1970s were also remarkable because CT scan brought about radical changes in the diagnosis and management of brain diseases. Since the 1970s, CT scan has been rapidly and constantly advancing and is now considered an essential and reliable diagnostic technique, even in emergency medicine. In 1998, the Japan Neurotrauma Data Bank Committee (JNTDB) was established as a part of the JSNT. The aim of this committee is to conduct an epidemiologic research on the epidemiology of traumatic brain injuries in Japan. After conducting a pilot study in 1997, a nationwide investigation was conducted for 3 years from 1998 to 2001, at 10 emergency medical centers. The investigation is now referred to as...Continue Reading

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