Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is the single largest cause of death from injury in the United States:

• 1,000,000 people with TBI per year in US: 
• 230,00 hospitalized 
• 50,000 die (one third of all trauma deaths) 
• 80 to 90,000 with long term disability

There are more than 5 million people in the US living with disability from TBI at an estimated cost of over $37.8 billion per year.

Fact Sheet from the NVIPC at CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/tbi.htm
Ref: Traumatic Brain Injury in the United States: A Report to Congress, CDC, Dec 1999