Following Traumatic Brain Injury, Balanced Nutrition Saves Lives
Thursday, July 3, 2008 - 17:21
in Health & Medicine
Clinician-scientists are suggesting an immediate and important change to guidelines used in the care of patients with traumatic brain injury. The researchers say that following traumatic brain injury, patients should be given nutritional supplementation through a gastric feeding tube as soon as possible, which they say can improve their chances of survival by as much as four-fold.