Webinars

DEC 16, 2021 3:00 PM CET

Diagnostic Dilemma of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Emergency Department

Sponsored by: Abbott

Speaker

Dr. Peter Biberthaler, M.D.

Chair, Department of Trauma Surgery Klinikum rechts der Isar Technical University of Munich, Germany
BIOGRAPHY

Event Date & Time

Date: December 16, 2021

Time: 6:00am (PST), 9:00am (EST), 3:00pm (CET)

Abstract

Current assessment tools for traumatic brain injury (TBI) have several limitations, lack of standard definitions and consistency in clinical management guidelines is a challenge in the evaluation and management of mild traumatic brain injury. Dr. Peter Biberthaler will discuss in this webinar the diagnostic dilemma of mTBI in the Emergency Department and elaborate on why clinicians are seeking desperately for a quantitative new evaluation tool.

It will review the current standard of care pathway, outline new evaluation tools, discuss recently published research, and provide perspective for the future.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the limitations of the current clinical evaluation pathway of mild traumatic brain injuries.
Become familiar with published research of brain injury biomarkers.
Lean about potential benefits of brain blood biomarkers as a tool in the assessment of patients in the Emergency Department.

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Diagnostic Dilemma of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in the Emergency Department

Dr. Peter Biberthaler, M.D.