TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) in the United States

(All statistics taken from the Center for Disease and Control Prevention web site) 

  - An estimated 1.7 million people sustain TBI annually. Of these: 52,000 die 275,000 are hospitalised 

- 1.365 million, nearly 80%, are treated and released from an emergency department. 

 - TBI is a contributing factor to a third (30.5%) of all injury-related deaths in the United States.

 - About 75% of TBIs that occur each year are concussions or other forms of mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). 

Direct medical costs and indirect costs of TBI, such as lost productivity, totaled an estimated $60 billion in the United States in 2000.