The Management of Moderate and Severe Traumatic Brain Injury in Resource Constrained Environments
26th November 2025, 19:00 to 20:00 GMT
Overview
According to the Global Burden of Disease database, the worldwide incidence of Traumatic Brain Injury, or TBI, is approaximately 21 million (index year 2021). This corresponds to a global age-standardized incidence rate of 259 cases per 100,000 (95% UI: 226–296).
Regionally, the highest age-standardized incidence rates are reported from in Eastern Europe (522/100,000), Australasia (479/100,000), and Central Europe (479/100,000).
In comparison, rates in other regions fall below 400/100,000. This includes Central Sub-Saharan Africa (183/100,000), Eastern Sub-Saharan Africa (167/100,000), and Western Sub-Saharan Africa (162/100,000). Incidence in males exceeds females in all regions. East Asia reports the highest absolute number of cases.
The majority of regions report that moderate/severe TBI constitutes more than 50% of cases except for high-income North America (29.23%), Western Europe (27.94%), high-income Asia Pacific (27.29%), Australasia (20.86%), and Southern Latin America (15.89%).
TBI, including concussion, is associated with a number of disruptive and disabling consequences in all age ranges and qualifies as one of the leading causes of global morbidity.
This webinar will discuss the principles of diagnosis, management and rehabilitation of patients with moderate to severe TBI in rural, remote and resource constrained environments, including the potential of recent technological advances in neuro-rehabilitation.
Aims
The webinar will review the diagnosis and management, including rehabilitation, of mTBI in resource constrained environments.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this webinar, attendees should be able to:
- Define moderate and severe TBI
- Determine what diagnostic tests are indicated
- Manage the condition initially
- Discuss indications for surgical intervention
- Determine whether and when referral and evacuation are appropriate
- Outline approaches to the rehabilitation of patients with moderate and severe TBI.
Panellists
Our panellists include:
(Chris) Fox, M.D., FAANS, FACS
Chris is Professor of Neurosurgery and Vice Chair of Neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic Florida; Associate Dean of Student Affairs, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine; former active duty neurosurgeon, the United States Navy; prior member of 2 NCAA National Championship teams as an ice-hockey player at the University of Michigan and professional hockey player for the Edmonton Oilers'. He has special interests in athletic head injury.
Aris Exadaktylos MD, FRCSEd, FRRHHEd
Aris is the Chairman and Director of the Emergency Department of the University Hospital (Inselspital) in Bern and Professor and Vice Dean of the Medical School, University of Bern. He has extensive experience in the provision of emergency medical services in resource constrained environments.
T. (Teo) Forcht Dagi MD, DmedSc, DHC, MPH, FRCSEd, FRRHHEd, FAANS
Teo is Professor of Neurosurgery at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Deputy Chair of the Surgical Specialty Board of Neurosurgery at the Royal College of Surgery of Edinburgh, former director of neurology and neurosurgery at the U.S. Airforce and U.S. Army training programs for flight surgery, editor of a US Revision of the NATO Handbook of War Surgery and a textbook on penetrating head injury, and editor of Neurosurgery and the Journal of Special Operations Medicine. He has special interest in neuroplasticity and neurorehabilitation.
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Recording
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