A Long Look at Head Injuries

Abstract

Over the last 40 years, improved standards of early care have created a growing population of disabled survivors of severe injuries of the brain. Solutions for this growing problem exist but they can never be complete. There is understandable and justifiable concern about the deficiencies in the long-term care of the victims of severe injury of the brain, who are to some extent the price of success in the management of such injuries during the early stages and so keeping alive brains that cannot recover fully.