A newly proposed framework expands acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) assessment beyond the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). The framework has four components known as clinical, biomarker, imaging, and ...

More information: Geoffrey T Manley et al, A new characterisation of acute traumatic brain injury: the NIH-NINDS TBI Classification and Nomenclature Initiative, The Lancet Neurology (2025). DOI ...

Glasgow Coma Scale interpretation. Once the assessment has been done, the results are added up: A mild traumatic brain injury has a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 13–15.

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) happens to millions of people annually. It can strike anyone, from athletes to grandma cooking lunch. Most of these injuries go und ...

Traditionally, TBI severity has been determined using the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), categorizing cases as mild, moderate, or severe. However, this method fails to capture the complexity of brain ...

For 51 years, trauma centers have used the Glasgow Coma Scale to assess patients with TBI, roughly dividing them into mild, moderate, and severe categories, based solely on their level of ...

Source Reference: Manley GT, et al "A new characterisation of acute traumatic brain injury: The NIH-NINDS TBI Classification and Nomenclature Initiative" Lancet Neurol 2025; DOI: 10.1016/S1474 ...