What is the survival rate for traumatic brain injury?
Each year over 50,000 Americans die from traumatic brain injuries. About 1 million people are treated and released from hospital emergency departments. 230,000 people survive after hospitalization, and 50,000, or twenty-two percent of individuals who sustain a TBI, die from their injuries. The outcome of TBI differs greatly with cause: 91% of firearm-related TBIs ended in death, yet only 11% of fall-related TBIs end fatally.
