Brain injuries due to accidents can lead to serious consequences, both in young people and especially in the elderly.
Many experts believe that brain trauma in an elderly person should receive more attention than routine care in this situation.
Sometimes the loss of consciousness can be attributed to a pre-existing cause, because of age. Or concomitant with a stroke (stroke), Alzheimer’s disease or drug-induced dizziness.
In young people, serious accidents are usually related to car speeding and drinking. Elderly people often believe that the old body will obey the order to run across a street when necessary.
Professor Dana Waltzman, from the CDC (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), recalls in Jama Neurology that traumatic brain injury in the elderly is one of the main causes of mortality in the United States.
In Brazil, physician José G. Parreira and collaborators from the Surgery Department of Santa Casa de São Paulo report, in the Revista do Colégio Brasileiro de Cirurgiões, with data prior to the current pandemic, that pedestrians constitute 20% of victims of traffic accidents . Mortality rates in these victims are constant, about 20 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
They also highlight a decrease in this rate, from 36% per 100,000 inhabitants to 20%, as of 2011, because motorcyclists and cyclists began to occupy the space of traffic as well.
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