CDC Facts About Traumatic Brain Injury - DID YOU KNOW?

Each year, an estimated 1.7 million people sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) annually. Of them:

•  52,000 die,
• 275,000 are hospitalized and
• 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 TBI.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Report to Congress on mild traumatic brain injury in the United States: steps to prevent a serious public health problem. Atlanta (GA): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2003.