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20/03/2014

UNNIN's researchers have organized a workshop on traffic accidents and traumatic brain injury

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20/03/2014

Coinciding with the Brain Awareness week, the activity has been hosted for the fifth time in the hospital

Coinciding with the Brain Awareness week and for the fifth consecutive year, professionals from Vall d’Hebron and researchers of the Neurotraumatology and Neurosurgery Research Unit (UNINN) at VHIR, organized the workshop "http://www.vhebron.net/documents/10165/9934571/Setmana+cervell-HUVH-2014-Programa.pdf/3b936c92-eb5e-44cb-9d05-b568e5a4dfd0" ‘Viu de prop el problema: coneix les causes i parla amb el malalt. Accidents de trànsit i traumatismes cranials. Causes i conseqüències', about the traumatic brain consequences that people can suffer after surviving a traffic accident.High school students from the IES Consell de Cent talked with doctors, researchers and patients about what is considered as the silent epidemic of XXI century and the first cause of death among young people: traumatic brain injuries caused by traffic accidents. The students also heard the experience of the president of the Catalan Association of Traumatic Brain Injury Affected, who suffered an accident when she was 17, as well as they visited the patients hospitalized in the intensive care unit and learned how professionals act when a patient with a traumatic brain injury arrives to the hospital.Vall d’Hebron is the reference in Catalonia in the integral treatment to patients with multiple traumas, trough the "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtHpxJPDzhQ" Polytrauma Code, a system of coordination and communication between the different levels of health care attention to patients who suffer multiple traumas.

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