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The Impact of Head Trauma on Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Leslie P. Ivan
Leslie P. Ivan*
Affiliation:
Canadian Neurosurgical Society
*
Division of Neurosurgery, University of Ottawa, Head, Division of Neurosurgery, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario K1H 8L1
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Abstract

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In this address I shall discuss head trauma from an angle which may be unusual for neuroscientists. Our preoccupations are diagnostic challenges and management problems, but that which we experience at the bedside is only a narrow segment of a continuum which started with trauma somewhere in a war, on the road, at home, on the football field, in the boxing ring, and in many other distinct locations. When our role is over, there are only three places where head trauma victims can be found; in cemeteries, where every year, 5,000 new graves are made to accommodate fatal head injuries in Canada; in chronic hospitals, which are already overloaded with victims of various insults to the brain, and, of course, within society, which accepts the fully recovered or tolerates the subtle and not so subtle consequences of so-called ‘minor’ head injuries.

Type
Special Features
Information
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , November 1984 , pp. 417 - 420
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1984

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