{"id":1939,"date":"2021-08-02T18:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/?post_type=sub-practice-areas&#038;p=1939"},"modified":"2021-12-10T16:54:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T16:54:09","slug":"moderate-t-b-i","status":"publish","type":"sub-practice-areas","link":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/moderate-t-b-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderate Traumatic Brain Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the Glascow Coma Scale, a moderate TBI is defined as a GCS score of between 9 and 12. According to the Abbreviated Injury Scale, (AIS), an anatomically based, consensus derived global severity scoring system, a moderate traumatic brain injury is defined as one scoring an AIS of 3-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some health care providers use a combination of the clinical picture, GCS, AIS and neuroimaging to help define or distinguish between an mTBI and a moderate TBI or a severe TBI and a moderate TBI.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is generally understood that the more life threatening the head injury is to the patient, the more severe the TBI is thought to be.&nbsp; Thus, there is some gray area among health care providers in determining where a mild TBI stops and a moderate TBI begins and where a moderate TBI stops and a severe TBI begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many simply classify a moderate TBI as a head trauma causing a loss of consciousness less than 30 minutes or an alteration in the mental state at the time of injury, plus a significant finding (hematoma or bleeding) shown on neuroimaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others may use a more basic definition of moderate TBI as that when a person experiences changes in brain function for longer than a few minutes following trauma when the symptoms do not go away or may even get worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2017,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"categories":[75],"class_list":["post-1939","sub-practice-areas","type-sub-practice-areas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traumatic-brain-injury"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub-practice-areas\/1939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sub-practice-areas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sub-practice-areas"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cochranfirm.com\/new-orleans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}