Advances in treatment help more people survive severe injuries to the brain
Saturday, January 22, 2011 - 13:50
in Health & Medicine
Brain Trauma Foundation guidelines drafted in 1995 have been widely adopted. Iranian physicians who treated the wounded in the Iran-Iraq war also helped treatment advance.In the 1946 issue of the Annals of Surgery, U.S. Army Maj. Ralph A. Munslow chronicled in exquisite detail the emergency care of 140 soldiers and civilians who suffered grievous head wounds — mainly from shell fragments — during the 5th Army's 1944 operation to seize and hold a beachhead in Anzio, Italy.