(USU News) – The Brain Trauma Foundation’s Guidelines for the Management of Penetrating Traumatic Brain Injury, Second Edition — the first revision in 25 years — urge surgeons to treat gunshot and blast wounds to the brain with immediate intervention rather than the long-standing wait-and-see approach.
Published as a supplement in the journal Neurosurgery, the guidelines drew on two decades of U.S. military trauma data and required collaboration among more than 35 international experts. Dr. Bradley Dengler, director of the Military Traumatic Brain Injury Initiative (MTBI²) and associate professor of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), served as one of the co-authors. CONTINUE