Personal Injury Law

Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Pocket Guide Now Available

By Bruce Stern

In collaboration with the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center (DVBIC), DCoE distributed a Mild TBI Pocket Guide for providers at the DVBIC 4th Annual TBI Military Training Conference on August 30-31, disseminating the tool to over 900 attendees. The Mild TBI Pocket Guide is a quick reference, all-encompassing resource for primary care and other TBI healthcare providers on the assessment, treatment and management of patients with mild TBI and related symptoms in the continental United States.

The clinical guidance and tools in the guide include:

• TBI basics
• Summaries of the VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Concussion/Mild TBI(2009) and Updated DoD Mild TBI Clinical Guidance (2008)
• ICD-9 coding guidance for TBI
• Cognitive rehabilitation for mild TBI
• Clinical recommendations on driving assessment after TBI
• Patient education tools
• Other clinical tools and resources

'The Mild TBI Pocket Guide equips our primary care providers and other TBI healthcare team members with an easy-to-use tool to support the assessment and management of patients with mild TBI and related symptoms,' said Ms. Katherine Helmick, DCoE's Senior Executive Director for Traumatic Brain Injury. 'Ultimately, our wounded warriors will benefit.'

To order hard copies of the Mild TBI Pocket Guide, contact DVBIC at info@dvbic.org or call 1-800-870-9244. While the Mild TBI Pocket Guide is a hard copy on-the-job reference, an electronic version is also available online here.

Full post as published by Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog on October 11, 2010 (boomark / email).