Alcohol and Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury, abbreviated as TBI, can result in severe brain damage.
Caused by impact to the brain, such as from a car accident, patients can fall into a coma; suffer from irreversible damage that affects memory, attention and mobility; and in the worse cases, die. In a new study published by the Archives of Surgery, alcohol may protect the brain from trauma during an accident. However, what implications does this study have?
Brain Protection
The study investigated 38,000 patients who suffered from traumatic brain injury between 2000 and 2005, and were hospitalized due to injuries. 38 percent of the patients had some alcohol in their blood—the study did not measure the amount of blood in each patient—which lowered their risk of dying from their injuries. When the number of deaths were compared, 9.7 percent of patients who had no blood alcohol levels died from injury to the brain.
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