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Latest news and informaton on brain injury. concussion, coma, traumatic brain injury authored by noted legal authority on brain injury who is President of Brain Injury Association of New York State and past chair, Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

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Dept of Defense opens new brain injury center

Posted on June 30, 2010
The United States Defense Department has opened the $65 million National Intreprid Center of Excellence at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda Maryland to address the psychological and neurological damage caused by traumatic brain damage in wounded soldiers...

Concussions again found to cause permanent brain damage

Posted on June 29, 2010
The evidence continues to mount concerning the permanent brain damage that takes place as a result of concussions. Yesterday, Neurosurgeon Julian Bailes and California medical examiner Bennet Omalu, co-directors of the Brain Injury Research Institute at WVU, publicly announced their findings concerning the brain of Cincinnati Begals receiver Chris Henry who passed away in December after falling off the back of a truck...

BrainLaw launches brain injury video blog

Posted on June 28, 2010
I am pleased to announce the launching of the BrainLaw video blog. BrainLaw is the web site for the Brain Injury Law Firm® devoted to providing quality legal representation to victims of traumatic brain injury and their families. The first four videos discuss: The brain injury law firm of DeCaro & Kaplen, LLP ® Suggestions on selecting a brain injury attorney A discussion on the various definitions of concussion Using medical imaging to prove traumatic brain injury in court

Important safety information about baby walkers

Posted on June 26, 2010
Baby Walkers Recalled by Suntech Enterprises Due to Fall Hazard The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed...

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Management of Intracranial Pressure

Posted on June 23, 2010
One of the most interesting aspects of writing this brain injury news and information blog is the information that I receive from assorted sources. Today, I received a press release from a pharmaceutical company, InnerSpace, Inc. announcing the marketing of a new device to monitor intracranial cerebral pressure ffor the management of traumatic brain injury...

Federal Traumatic Brain Injury Update

Posted on June 23, 2010
The following legislative update was prepared by the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA): Federal TBI Program Update On June 15, 2010, BIAA and other TBI stakeholders met with Mary Wakefield, the Administrator of Health and Human Service?s (HHS) Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to discuss the future of the federal TBI program, one of the programs funded through the TBI Act...

New York Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities to get needed name change

Posted on June 22, 2010
The New York State legislature has passed legislation officially changing the name of the state agency responsible for providing services to individuals suffering from developmental disabilities from the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD) to the New York State Office For People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) This vital legislation not only removes the words ?Mental Retardation? from the name of the State agency, but also from State statute and regulations, excluding clinical references...

Hospital delirium

Posted on June 21, 2010
Hospital delirium, a condition associated with hospitalizations in the elderly is an increasingly common occurrence according to a fascinating story in today?s New York Times, Hallucinations in Hospital Pose Risk to the Elderly. According to the article, hospital delirium affects about one-third of patients over 70, and a greater percentage of intensive-care or postsurgical patients citing the, the American Geriatrics Society...

New outcomes reported for patients in the minimallly conscious state and those in the persistent vegetative state

Posted on June 20, 2010
Results of 2 new studies provide valuable new information on the prognosis of minimally conscious (MCS) and vegetative states (VS). The reports will appear in the July 20th issue of the Journal Neurology. A retrospective study was utilized to examine long-term outcomes of MCS and VS patients up to 5 years after injury and found that in contrast to the VS patients, one third of MCS patients improved more than a year after coma onset...

New guidelines for determining brain death issued by American Academy of Neurology

Posted on June 19, 2010
The American Academy of Neurology has released new guidelines for determining brain death in adults. Updated for the first time in 15 years, the recommendations provide step-by-step instructions to help guide clinical decision making. "The brain death diagnosis can be made only after a comprehensive clinical evaluation and often involves more than 25 separate assessments," lead author Eelco Wijdicks, MD, from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, said in a news release...

New rule changes for concussions in high school football players

Posted on June 18, 2010
New rule changes have been made by the National Federation of State High School Associations on how concussions are to be treated by coaches. At an offseason Football Rules Committee meeting, the national high school athletics governing body adopted a rule requiring players showing symptoms of a concussion to be removed from competition until cleared by an appropriate health-care professional...

Proof that the NFL has a long way to go in educating players about the life long consequences of brain injury and concussions

Posted on June 17, 2010
The process of education players about the dangers of brain injury and concussions is going to be a long and difficult job for the NFL. One only has to read the Times interview with former New York Giants player, Amani Toomer who said that if he were still playing, he would not want to report a concussion ? even with what he knows now...

Kaplen sworn in as Vice President, New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers

Posted on June 16, 2010
I am honored to report that I was sworn in last evening as a Vice President of the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers at a membership reception and ceremonies in Albany, New York by a member of the New York State Court of Appeals, the Honorable Victoria Graffeo...

A tribute to Dr. Fred Plum

Posted on June 15, 2010
Dr. Fred Plum, a prominent neurologist whose pioneering research advanced the understanding of coma and unconsciousness past away late last week. Dr. Plum's ground breaking research on unconsciousness improved medical understanding of coma and influenced the medical profession in developing criteria to distinguish between the various stages of unconsciousness: coma, the vegetative state, the locked in syndrome and the minimally conscious state...

Where is the Pentagon's Brains?

Posted on June 14, 2010
In a damming lead article this morning, "Military fails on brain-test follow up," USA Today reports that the Pentagon has failed to comply with congressional mandates that they administer a brain injury screening test to all returning veterans. As a result thousands of brain injured veterans fail to obtain a proper diagnosis and fail to obtain necessary treatment...

Pennsylvania Brain Injury Association Annual Conference

Posted on June 12, 2010
The Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania will hold its 10th Annual Conference, ?Navigating a Changing Community: Resources for Brain Injury,? on June 21-22 2010 at the Lancaster Marriot & Convention Center in Lancaster, PA, June 21 ? 22, 2010. To learn more about this conference visit the brain injury association of pennsylvania web site.

Web Based Seminar on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy

Posted on June 11, 2010
The Brain Injury Association of America will present a webinar on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) on June 17, 2010, 3- 4 p.m. EST. CTE has received a great deal of attention recently as a result of studies at the University of Boston sponsored by the Sports Legacy Institute which link this condition to multiple concussions received by athletes...

Product Safety Recalls

Posted on June 11, 2010
I?ve decided to expand the topics on the brain injury news and information blog to include other safety information which I believe my readers would be interested in. Each week, I will be publishing the latest consumer product safety recalls issued by the U...

Shaken Baby Information and Prevention Toolkit Available

Posted on June 10, 2010
The New York State Health Department?s Bureau of Injury Prevention has announced the availability of the updated Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention Toolkit. The toolkit provides information on Shaken Baby Syndrome to share with your community. Shaken Baby Syndrome is a serious form of child abuse in which an adult violently shakes a baby or young child, leading to serious brain damage or death...

Special Education and Traumatic Brain Injury Survey Undertaken

Posted on June 09, 2010
Parents and Guardians Invited to Participate in School-related Research Study: For parents unfamiliar with the special education system, navigating through the processes can be extremely complicated. A study to examine the attitudes and perceptions experienced by families of students with traumatic brain injuries when navigating through the educational system is now underway...

Medial requests for persons with service connected brain injury to tell their story

Posted on June 09, 2010
National Public Radio (NPR) has requested individuals and family members of armed service members who have sustained brain damage to contact them and tell their story. NPR wants to hear about your experience in living with a traumatic brain injury. You can go to the NPR web site and fill out their form for contact.

Federal TBI Interagency conference announced

Posted on June 08, 2010
The 3rd Federal Interagency Conference on TBI has been announced and scheduled to be held on June 13-15, 2011 at the Washington Hilton, Washington, DC. The planning committee has invited proposals for presentations at this conference. The first Federal Interagency Conferences were held in 1999 and the second in 2006...

Dealing with sexual issues following a traumatic brain injury

Posted on June 08, 2010
"Friendships, relationships, love, intimacy,sex. This list could go on for several pages when we think about the numerous and complex issues facing people with brain injuries, as well as their family and friends, when we discuss sexuality. While professionals need to focus upon important rehabilitation services and long term supports for individuals with brain injuries, the critical issues of "life" are sometimes left out of our treatment services due to funding and/or knowledge basis" [from the editor's in chief message, Ronald Savage, EdD in this month's Brain Injury, the official publication of the North American Brain Injury Association...

New study to evaluate medication for frequent complaint of sleepiness following brain injury and concussions

Posted on June 07, 2010
A new clinical study is underway to evaluate an investigational drug treatment for the excessive sleepiness suffered by many individuals following a concussion or other types of brain injury. Clinical research sites across the world are working with biopharmaceutical company Cephalon, Inc...

Some thoughts on last week's NFL brain injury medical committee meeting

Posted on June 06, 2010
Perhaps, the National Football League is being to get it. Last week, the NFL?s new Medical Committee on the Head, Neck and Spine (formally known as the Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Committee), held a closed door meeting [these type of meetings to discuss the health and safety of players always cause me to be suspicious] at Johns Hopkins University...

Brain Injury Legal Seminars: Syracuse, New York and Albany, New York

Posted on June 04, 2010
Next week I will be chairing and presenting information to lawyers on the legal aspects of traumatic brain injury at two seminars sponsored by the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers. The seminars will provide information on the basics of traumatic brain injury litigation including the mechanism of injury, the definitions of traumatic brain injury, current medical literature, ethical considerations, trial tactics and important resources...

Report from the House Judicary Committee Hearing on Concussions in the NFL

Posted on May 24, 2010
Today's hearing of the House Judiciary Committee examining the manner in which the NFL is dealing with the epidemic of concussions produced some healthy skepticism from committee chair, Linda Sanchez of California and Anthony D. Weiner of New York. It was clear that despite testimony from the new co-directors of the NFL's reformulated Head, Neck and Spine committee regarding future NFL plans to address concussions, the NFL's past was still present in the committee room to haunt them...

Questions that Congress needs to ask the NFL at tomorrow's House Judicary Committee hearing examining concussions in professional football

Posted on May 23, 2010
According to published reports, in anticipation of tomorrow?s congressional hearing in New York City which will continue to examine the way the NFL deals with concussions, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell sent a letter to 44 governors urging them to pass legislation that mandates that student athletes be removed from play following a concussion and that they not be allowed to return to play until they receive appropriate medical clearance...

Concussions in High School Athletes Greatly Underestimated

Posted on May 20, 2010
The House Education and Labor Committee is holding a hearing today on the prevalence of concussions in high school athletes. As part of this hearing, a report was made public from the Government Accounting Office that finds that concussions among high-school athletes occur with alarming frequency, but it's impossible to know exactly how often because of gaps in how the injuries are reported...

Attorney Traumatic Brain Injury Program

Posted on May 19, 2010
I'm traveling to Chicago today to participate as a speaker at the American Association for Justice, Traumatic Brain Injury Program designed to educate attorneys on how to effectively represent victims of brain trauma. The program scheduled for May 20 and May 21 at the Hotel Allegro in Chicago Illinois will cover areas such as Brain Function, Injury and Neuropathology...

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